Describe. To describe the nature of christianity which is a problem. Hes the author of this prim or christianity and politics a brief guide to the history. You are watching cspan2. Next on booktv pulitzer prizewinning historian David Brion Davis completes his history of slavery in the west. In a final volume published 38 years after the second installment of the author focuses on emancipation from the haitian revolution to the American Civil War and its aftermath. This is about an hour. On behalf of the center i would like to welcome you all here fo before but is a landmark event and evening honoring the launch of the new book. A couple of acknowledgments and introductions and then we will turn the program over to the speaker. I would like to start by extending a thinks to the person that arranged for this event and the center together so we odierno up a great deal and also michelle, some of the publishers and from the institute for their cooperation in arranging this evening. I also would like to recognize the members have taken their time to come here as well. A few brief words of introduction. One of the reasons i was glad i jumped at this opportunity was because of the work the professor has been such a great deal to us. My own work has benefited from some of the writing particularly years ago researching to give you a sense of the work on slavery which is what we are here to talk about that in the landmark in its own right on those areas as well and also we are greatly indebted to the courage and antisemitism decades ago when it was a time of great controversy and attention he condemned what needed to be condemned and he did it in a scholarly dispassionate manner that left a great impression. The center is named after a person who devoted his life to justice to the victims of the holocaust and becoming a human rights champion of trying to ensure the lessons of the period woulthatperiod would never be fn and no group, jews were others would suffer such fate again. There is a great infinity between that and the work of professor davis. For example it doesnt take more than a glance at our world to see how we have fallen into since the oppression and genocide are present in the world today. They remind us in the epilogue of the book that it still exists in the certain conditions to be restored on the largescale insurgent areas. It was shaped by the events of world war ii and as he himself has written and has stated living in the shadows of the holocaust and the rubble was the goal of unearthing the truth and propaganda and the overall comprehensive view people stop and think to make the world a safer this was written in 1946 and the only thing i would suggest that changed is the list of those that endanger the democracy was longer. As i read the book i was drawn to the relationships on the similarities and differences between the holocaust and syst system. Some great examples that came to mind were the role of the victims ignored in the first wave of the study dealing with the holocaust, the landmark study and destruction of the jury