coming up next, harvard university history professor, vincent brown chronicles the 18th century they were hold that took place in jamaica. known as techies ripple. >> welcome to you all, i'm the president and ceo of the museum of the american revolution. it's wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience and we are live streaming the program this evening. will be on book to be. we will live on forever and ever at 3:00 a.m. when people can't sleep. i'll get a text for my father the following morning fast as you were on television again. i'm just curious, i show of hands, how many of you are visiting for the first time this evening to the museum? wonderful. welcome to all of you. you are surrounded by many of our members, our revolution society, this is a wonderful people who are great supporters of our music. we are pleased to partner with harvard for trust, you will see him up on the screen here. i know tim but all i can see is darkness out there. so let's thank them for making these possible. [applause] it's a real pleasure to be welcoming doctor vincent brown this evenin

then we will warmly welcome vincent brown.[pause for clip] [pause for clip] [applause] >> i did not expect the sizzle reel. now i can lay back and relax. thank you for that lovely introduction. thank you for all the fantastic work you do here at the museum and for inviting me to speak this evening. i want to thank hannah bacher and alex mcclatchey for arranging my appearance here. and ryan david for holding down the tent. it's kind of oncoming for me in a way because consulted early on the museum but also those à Ãbut also because of phil mead one of the curators and he was a graduate student hours at harvard university. i am grateful to be here to support him. [applause] i'm extremely honored to have laurel thatcher or work in the audience. she was instrumental in hiring me and i'm so grateful. i'm grateful you did. i'm honored to be with you here. i'm hoping we can catch a bit of the spirit of revolution together before it's too late. in 1776 great britain's most important american colony was on the verge of infraction. colo

coming up next, harvard university history professor, vincent brown chronicles the 18th century they were hold that took place in jamaica. known as techies ripple. >> welcome to you all, i'm the president and ceo of the museum of the american revolution. it's wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience and we are live streaming the program this evening. will be on book to be. we will live on forever and ever at 3:00 a.m. when people can't sleep. i'll get a text for my father the following morning fast as you were on television again. i'm just curious, i show of hands, how many of you are visiting for the first time this evening to the museum? wonderful. welcome to all of you. you are surrod