historian, author, and tour garrett peck. tool hasrance related been featured on c-span, book tv, and a program with henry rollins. he was featured on a documentary history channel. he is the author of 11 books including prohibition in washington, d.c.: how dry we weren t. prohibition was a before we get started i want to invite all of you to join us in the lobby following the presentation to enjoy a sample cocktailibition era courtesy of sounding spirits gin.ding spirits garrettet me introduce peck. [applause] peck: thank you, everyone for joining me at our wake, our try wake. we will commemorate we are not going to celebrate this. adventure tonight we will have a chance to celebrate with a french 75 cocktail in the lobby. i appreciate everyone coming year, and as well for c-span2 come out and film asir for the national audience. thank you so much. this is a rather triggering image, especially for a year drinker like myself. they are pouring beer into the sewer it
i did have a clear idea of what i wanted the symposium to be. a blend of well-known speakers. blended with excellent lesser-known speakers who you should want to know well and will want to know well and have them speak about their exciting new research and their contributions to civil war scholarship. i stumbled on a title and a gimmick using the year 2020. as a way of providing hindsight and insight into the study of the civil war. with that concept in mind, i want to introduce our first speaker who was an obvious choice to lead off this conference. jack davis has been one of the most prominent and accomplished civil war scholars for several generations. he started as a boy, i think. if i recall correctly, his first civil war book, a biography of john c breckenridge he wrote as a college student. he won the first of four awards. you will find a partial list of titles of his civil war books in your program. jack was also a longtime editor of civil war times illustrated. a
let me just make this point. following what has happened to the oil price, if there was a scottish november autumn statement they would be a statement that was about cuts, cuts, cuts, taxes, taxes, taxes, a you can also watch anytime online at c-span.org. prime minister cameron attends the paris conference this week thed president obama conference earlier today. scheduled to produce an international agreement to reduce carbon emissions by 2020. the international energy agency released a report on global outlook this month with projections from now until 2040. the executive director will be at the center for strategic and international studies tomorrow to discuss the report in more detail. that will be live at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span three. all persons having business before the supreme court of the united states admonished to draw near and get their attention. coming up on c-span s landmark cases. which they refuse to do, so she grabbed and out of his hands to lo
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