historian carol buse he talks about frontier outpost after the war of 1812. later, john price, senior policy advisor to nixon gives behind-the-scenes look at the 30 seventh president's to mystic agenda. .. >> that's the national part of our heritage and a huge part of her history. what happened and how did we get from the fact of the coming to these annual remembrances i get thanksgiving and to the important place of them and political speeches, reagan's calling as a city on the hill because of the puritan called this inhale and the titans came here and so forth and how did we get from one place to the next in the way that we get there is through the work of history's of what we will be looking at today is after the united states becomes an independent nation, what happens to the development of historical writings, how do they take off and how do they focus on certain certain national narratives and what happens to maintain them and to disseminate them to a wide population and we talked last time and before about ernest and collective memory and about this id