Yeah, so, you know, I kind of got...

brought into this world as a journalist writing about history.

And I guess if you write about history long enough and learn how to use footnotes, you become a historian.

And so especially that last book of mine about the ghost towns brought me into the mix here.

And And I was going to speak as part of this conference about a local issue just to sort of provide some local color, but I was kind of concerned because I went over the draft agenda and there was nothing that talked about President Trump and his assaults on the telling of history or his unique perspective on... why history should be told from a patriotic point of view and kind of reversing a lot of the trends we talked about, the revisionism that Steve Haycox was bringing to the story of Alaska history.

There's been a lot of talk nationally about his efforts to undo birthright citizenship and to restore truth and sanity, unquote, in the telling of history by threatening to take... funding federal funding away from school districts if they tell a negative story about including things like slavery that you know they would say was a sort of an aberration that passed quickly um and and uh you know it's it's a good it's always good for the historical world to reassess itself and and to say have we you know gone too far in this one direction or not but and that's that's certainly going on now but i wanted to talk about all of that and um especially in light of Alaska history.

And so that's what my talk is going to be about.

For our listeners, can you introduce what the 14th Amendment is?