a company founded by west point grad vinnie viola.xecutive chairman of high frequency trading firm. his investment of a few million dollars kick started the project. >> i think of a high-tech company together with west point. how did that take place? >> west point essentially approached us and said we want to rewrite military history and bring it to the 21st century. so really the project started with some purely philanthropic roots. a couple of us came up with an ideaed we wanted an endowed text book. we needed a sustainable model where some of the revenue would come back and support it going forward. >> it looks like ohio. >> there's ohio. >> that was a quiz. i wanted to make sure you knew where it was. >> it shows the white male population, go to a populous southern states. >> more slaves than white males in south carolina at this point. >> uh-huh. >> it took three semesters for west point to take thousands of years of history. >> we wrote a million words, a thousand new maps 4rks 9 authors. >> and get it in the hands of 1200 cadet

of rowen technology solutions, a company founded by west point grad and florida panthers owner vinny violaexecutive chairman of high frequency trading firm virtu financial. his investment of a few million dollars kick-started the project. >> i think of a high-tech company with west point, how did that first take place? >> west point essentially approached us and said, hey, we really want to rewrite military history, bring it into the 231st century. really the project started with some kind of purely fill an tlopic roots. >> we wanted an endowed textbook. we needed a sustainable model where at least some of the revenue would come back in. >> this is the enter active right here. >> let's look at ohio. >> there's ohio. >> that was a quiz. i wanted to make sure you know where it is. >> this just shows you the white male population, 473,000. go to one of the more populous southern states. >> there were more slaves than white males? >> yes. >> living in south carolina at that point? >> uh-huh. >> with military-like precision, it took three semesters for west point to take thousands of years of h