Watch American History tv, tonight and over the weekend, on cspan3. All right. Since we have a very ontime 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 im going to start off by introducing our panel. And then everyones 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, hes published articles in the journal of the early republic, the journal of military history and the new england quarterly. He is curren
Good evening. I am lauren, with smithsonian associates. Im very glad youre here tonight. To our ongoing members thank you for your support. You are making this possible. We welcome you to use the programs we offer here at smithsonian associates. Now is the perfect time to silence your cellphones or anything else that might make noise during the program. Were 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, cspan. 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 werent. 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
Discussion will be at the end. So please write down any thoughts you have, questions, responses, that would be good. The jazz age, the period from 1919 to 1929 reminds me of the opening lines of a tale of two cities by charles dickens. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Well, it wasnt exactly the best of times, but for many people it was certainly good times. It was a great age of literature, of the golden age of sports, music, jazz. The 19th amendment to the constitution, which allowed women to vote in National Elections for the first time, radio was becoming popular. It was the early days of hollywood and certainly the age of the automobile, the model t. And automobiles were for almost every budget. Those are the good times, which we will discuss, and it wasnt exactly the worst of times, although there were some very bad times. And the failures of that decade led to the worldwide depression in the 1930s and helped the rise of fascism in europe. So lets begin with ta
Hes the author of the prohibition hangover and prohibition in washington, d. C. , how dry we werent. Good evening. Im Lauren Rosenberg with Smithsonian Associates. Im so glad youre here tonight. To our members, welcome. Its our ongoing support that makes events like this possible. If youre joining us for the first time, an equally warm welcome and invitation to explore the programs we offer at smithsonian institutes. Now is the perfect time to silence your cell phones or anything else that might make noise during the program. Were thrilled to welcome author, historian and tour guide garrett peck back to the smithsonian. Garrett has presented at the library of congress and the National Archives and his temperance toward our prohibition sites has been featured on cspan, book tv and History Channel program 10 things you didnt know about with henry rollins. He was featured on a document about prohibition by the smithsonian channel. Hes the author of several books including how dry we weren
Taught and talked about and consumed over the years. This conference is sponsored by the department of history here at Purdue University. It is organized by katie brunell. Thank you. Were thankful to all of them to get into this and discuss this whole issue of how history is going to be taught in the future. Were new in the brian lamb school of communication here and our goal is to help professors from across the country use the cspan archives which is now over 250,000 hours of american political history. In their classrooms and in their research. We do other things. But thats what were concentrating on at this conference. Well be interested in following you as we reach out to specifically history professors across the country. Who are interested in using the cspan archives in the classrooms and in research. We have three excellent panelists that all have different areas of interest under this topic. Theyre going to speak for five to seven minutes and then take a lot of q a. Were going