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okay whatever you want to do all right so let's talk about those those early days well when you're ready no go go ahead okay when roy was hired and he was always committed to the notion that history wasn't just for the historians or the people in our classes it was for the public it was for a broader public roy's vision for the center rose and spike's vision was very much about making breaking down the ivory towers democratizing history you know he conceived of that at a time in which you could reach new audiences with information about the past who otherwise not might not have access to that you know we all thought he was wasting his time and we thought scholarship and teaching that was that was the coin of the realm the idea that you could put these really great images and these really great sources on a cd-rom instead of a textbook you could get so much more to the teachers and students who could really make the most use out of it and he decides that we need a center he's the only g