Two battles at concorde at bunker hill. Its about an hour, 15. Its an honor to be speaking here at the old statehouse. Thanks for coming and thank you to booktv, cspan for joining us here. About three weeks into the design of reporting the revolutionary where we realized we were on pace to produce an 800 page, twoinch thick volume and so we quit lee retrace her steps and decided to scale back and produce what is now a 400 page fullcolor book for you. Similarly, i prepared a five hour presentation for you this evening. [laughter] and decided to scale that back to a more manageable 45 minutes, so i will start by saying this. Without newspapers, there would have been no American Revolution. Newspapernewspaper s are what fanned the flames of the rebellion. They sustained loyalty to the cause. They provided critical correspondence during the war and they ultimately aided in the outcome. Historians know this very well. For 220 years historians have referenced these newspapers in the footnote