tonight's speaker is william m. fowler, jr., diggs tin gived proffers of northeastern university and a long time president of the nengds quarterly. he is the author of a number of highly regarded books, contributions to scholarly public indications and articles in the popular media, many of which concentration on aspects of the american revolution, its milt tair and political history, and the people of that era, both the famous and the obscure. the list of publications in professor fowler's cv is long so i can't list them all but here are two popular books that everyday readers might well remember. samuel adams radical pure tan and a biography of john hancock. the last time bill fowler was at the social law library was in 205. at the time he was the director of the massachusetts historical society and he joined gordon wood, pauline may area, ankiel redemar and me in a fascinating and fun discussion celebrating the 225th anniversary of the massachusetts constitution of 1780. the story line of his newest book starts just a y