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Forward to taking questions and comments from the audience. As you know, we are here because a year ago, almost exactly a year ago today, president obama created the First Ever National park site devoted to reconstruction. As we all know, the United States has dozens of sites , buted to the civil war until january 2017, we had none devoted to reconstruction. Fittingly, the site that was designated was in beaufort, South Carolina. We set up this roundtable to bring together some of the people who played crucial roles in making that happen. Chanceed to give them a to tell us what we should be learning from it, and how historians can be helpful and interesting partners in those processes of improving Public Memorials and other places across the country, and to hear some amazing tales of how it came to be. I am breakdowns, university greg downs, university of california. Quickly do a sound test for this video, so bear with me for one second. Array, we are in good shape. I am from northwest

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