It is great to have such a large for there on this day election, as we are all sort of anxiously awaiting what happens. It is a genuine pleasure for me to be able to introduce amanda to you. Director ofssociate the National History center. I have worked with her for the past 2. 5 years. I could sing your praises ad. Auseam she is indispensable to the operations and success of the center over the years. For someone who is so young, she had an interesting and varied career. Before she became an historian, she was a pastry chef and worked at a prominent restaurant and got her phd at the university of michigan and a postdoc at yale. At the same time, she has continued her interest in food history. She has taught historical cooking classes. She has a blog called just desserts. She has herto that, mainstay as a historian, her work on the origins of humanitarianism and that has led to the book from empire to the American Revolution and origins of humanitarianism which was published by Oxford
She talks about the motivations and charity work of mid18thcentury north american and british philanthropists and humanitarians. This event was cohosted by the Woodrow Wilson center and National History center. It is just under 90 minutes. All right. It is great to have such a large crowd here on this day for the before the election, as we are all sort of anxiously awaiting what happens. It is a genuine pleasure for me to be able to introduce amanda to you. She is the associate director of the National History center. I have worked with her for the past 2. 5 years. I could sing her praises ad nauseam. I will simply say she has been indispensable to the operations and success of the center over the years. For someone who is so young, she has had a really interesting and varied career. Before she became an historian, she was a pastry chef and worked at some prominent restaurants. Then got her phd at the university of michigan and a postdoc at yale. At the same time, she has continued her
Trafficking. We are aware of the potential of sex trafficking and missing teenagers. We reviewed all the cases and there is no indication there is a connection. Sam the recent addition is a 16yearold girl who disappeared three weeks ago today around 7 00 a. M. In the 3500 block of minnesota avenue southeast. 16yearold faith nelson, 52, 120 pounds. Reporting from southeast washington, im sam ford, abc7 news. Michelle you can see photos of all the missing children at wjla. Com. Jonathan all right. Now to the developing story we have been following in lorton. It could be days before that garbage fire we showed you last night. It has been burning and it will keep burning at the recycling center. I started after 9 00 last night. And q mccray is there live with the latest. They will let it burn itself out . Q yeah. Let me show the viewers at home what we are talking about this afternoon. Here it is. As you can see, you will notice the smoke. This fire continues to smolder right now over 30 h
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