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Her sister braend has been missing since 19926789 the 13 year old last seen leaving the home to collect money for book a thon. I always knew. You want to hold out hope but i just am. I knew she was gone. Investigators scrambling trying to see if the socalled canal killer could have had more victims. In 2015 there was a Game Changing revelation. We are looking ate a possible connection between braend and a man behind the valley canal murders. Bryan patrick miller. Had come to the store trying to deliver girl scout cook yes, which unfortunately he had never ordered any. Yet 1 year later no physical evidence linking braend and bryan t. Time is running out. I have words to say i waited more than 20 years to say to the person who took my life with hers. Were always together. This case is still open. And she hopes her sisters case could be used in a plea deal. He is already accused of murdering a 22year old and 17 year old. His trial is ....
Destruction of slavery. And with that there is a guilt and burden having to live up to military defeat and the ownership of sl slaves, an explanation that came out of that that we call the lost cause, i dont care who thl cast of characters ultimately, defeated people, who believed they were a christian people, who believed that god would ultimately decide this conflict in their favor, and they wake uh in april of 1865 and say, thingh didnt turn out the way we had imagined, they have to do a lot of explaining. Explaining to themselves and to the outside world. That lost cause is mythical and false. As it is in some instances, ino there is a realism to it, and that realism is very much grounded into the reality of the post war world in which the bobo and rail is now on top of thatu africanamericans, and, of course, were going to do everything they can, fight awayy to try to regain that authority that was lost in war. Thank you very much. [ applause ] remind your children in this bicenten ....
War, is the war in 1864. Good morning. If you could all take a seat, please. I am pete carmichael, professor of history here at gettysburg college. I am also the director of the civil war institute. It is my pleasure this morning to introduce brooks simpson, the Asu Foundation professor of history at Arizona State university. He is a historian of 19th century america. The american presidency as well as the civil war and reconstruction. He has written extensively about ulysses s. Grant. He is the author of let us have peace . S grant and the politics of reconstruction, released in 1991. He is also the author of u. S. Grant triumph over adversity. That earned distinction as a New York Times notable book of the year. Just recently, he has published and edited a boeing by the library of america a volume by the library of amer ....
Every night. [laughter] in this photograph, there is no risk of his work falling by the wayside. For freeman was the bag or the biographer and wrote for albums on robert e lee. He did three volumes on the army of Northern Virginia entitled these lieutenants. All good work beautifully written. Tohad froze that is equal british cadence. He did great original research. He was very much enamored with the general. He admitted to this. Every morning as he walked to work, he would salute the statue of robert e lee in richmond. Thats a little odd but nonetheless, he had great admiration for the general. And he was a professional historian. Freeman grew up in virginia. His undergraduate at university of richmond and went on to Johns Hopkins where he got his phd. Did not enter the academy. He decides to work for a living was a journalist with two different papers in richmond. His his ....