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Civil war. My name is molly mersmann and i am a postdoctoral associate here with the Virginia Center for civil war here at virgin tech, which is sponsoring this event, the center regularly hosts talks like and other activities which include academic conferences scholarships and grants, outreach programs in museums and, Elementary School classrooms and more besides, basically sharing wonderful civil war era history. As many different people as we possibly can. You can keep up with what is going on with the center on our website, which is civil war dot v teen dot edu or you can go on facebook or twitter. On to tonights event. Our speaker is dr. Meghan bever, who is an associate professor of history and chair of the social department at Missouri Southern state university. She received her ph. D. From, the university of alabama, but i am a little more excited that she received her undergraduate degree at purdue university, which is where i went for my graduate work. So im excited to have t
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