The top of the page. Good evening everyone. Were delighted to have you with us. Welcome to book talk tuesday. Im at the center for digital history at the Washington Library. Were glad to see you back in this new year and delighted you have joined and decided to spend your evening with us. Tonight im very excited because were going to have an opportunity to explore the challenges, the opportunities that early americans faced while living under british military rule in the american revolution. Before we get to that and our guests, a programming note, i want to encourage you to join us on january 27th, next week, we will have a special symposium entitled leadership for a more perfect union. It is a one Day Symposium done in partnership with the brookings institute. We will talk about some of the serious issues that are facing this country at this time and some of the solutions for the way forward. Well be joined by some esteemed figures from government, from philanthropy and from business
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