so now please join me in welcoming garrett peck. >> good evening. thanks for coming out for our dry wake. about six hours from now, 12:01, once the clock ticks over from january 16th to january 17th, that's the exact moment when national prohibition began. so today we are -- yeah, a lot of sour faces in the room. we're going to commemorate this. we'll not celebrate it. we'll have a chance to celebrate our right to drink with a french 75 cocktail out in the lobby. i appreciate everyone coming here tonight and for c-span to come out here tonight and to film this here for the national audience. so thank you so much. so this is -- i warned a few people here about this image here. you see this on the screen right now. this is a rather triggering image, especially for a drinker like myself. pouring beer into a sewer. so tragic. that is the most famous shots from prohibition. the police commissioner in the hat overseeing them pouring the beer down the drain. it's really unfortunate. but we'll give -- we'll cover how prohibition came to be and ultimately wh

we're thrilled tonight to offer historian and tour guide garrett peck back to the smithsonian. in addition to the tour as he leads, he has presented a library to congress in the national car archives. his work has been published on the history channel, c-span. he was featured in a two hour documentary but prohibition by this mouth sonia channel. he was featured in a book called how dry we weren't. alcohol in america, the great world wars of america, published in 2018. before we get started i want you to join us in the lobby after the presentation to enjoy a sample of the prohibition cocktail think to founding spirits jim. now i want you to join me in welcoming garrett peck. >> good evening everyone, thank you so much for coming out for our dry wake. 100 years ago today, fact about seven hours ago, as the clock ticks from 2016 to 2017 that's when the prohibition began. a lot of sour faces here in the room. we will commemorate, not celebrate this, after the event here we can celebrate our right to drink with a french 75 cocktail out in the lobby afterwards. i appreciate everyone

eastern, historian and tour guide garrett peck discusses prohibition's rise, as well as its fall, 13 years later, with the repeal of the 18th amendment. this year marks the 100th anniversary of the start of prohibition. watch american history tv, tonight and over the weekend, on c-span3. >> all right. since we have a very on-time sort of calming of the room, i am going to go ahead and kick us off. thank you, so much, for coming to the violence in american politics panel. as i think we will see it as an incredibly timely panel. and a really good time to be putting these topics into the context of a broader american history. so i'm going to start off by introducing our panel. and then everyone's going to give their opening statement. and then, we will start the conversation. so who is sitting right next to me is t. cole jones. assistant professor at purdue university. he is author of "captives of liberty" prisoners of war and the politics of vengeance in the american reserve lugz, which will be released this fall by the university of pennsylvania press. in addition to his book, he's pu

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eastern, historian garrett peck discusses prohibitions rise and fall 13 years later with a repeal of the 18th amendment. this year marks the 100th anniversary of the start of prohibition. watch american history tv tonight and over the weekend on c-span3. >>> the presidents, from public affairs, available now in paperback and e-book. presents biographies of every president organized by their ranking from best to worst and features perspectives into the lives of our nation's chief executives and leadership styles. visit our website c-span.org/the presidents to learn about presidents and order your copy today wherever books and e-books are sold. >>> up next on american history tv, historians discuss the effect of media and technology on politics. topics include silicon valley, artificial intelligence and cable television. from purdue university, this is about 90 minutes from purdue university. >> so good morning and welcome to the media technology and state panel. this is part of a larger two day session called "remaking american political history" where we're all talking about history

eastern, historian and tour guide garrett peck discusses prohibition's rise, as well as its fall, 13 years later, with the repeal of the 18th amendment. this year marks the 100th anniversary of the ar

eastern, historian and tour guide garrett peck discusses prohibitions rise as well as its fall 13 years later with a repeal of the 18th amendment. this year marks the 100th anniversary of the start of prohibition. watch american history tv tonight and over the weekend on c-span3. >>> up next, from purdue university political history conference, a panel of biographers talk about subjects including sammy davis jr. and jim and tammy faye baker and muhammad ali. >> thank you for attending our session on this beautiful friday afternoon. i'll have to compete with the outdoors and hopefully we'll convince you you've made the right choice hanging out with us to talk about media and biography in political history. between the four of us, we have written at least 17 biographies and it might be more than that. i was losing count because randy