Jessica Salo
Jessica Salo is a 2009 graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle. Her main academic interests were modern U.S. cultural and political history. In addition to her studies, she was a research assistant to historian Margaret Pugh O’Mara. Jessica plans to attend graduate school and continue her studies in American history to pursue a career as a historian.
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Ulysses Grant Lee Jr. (1913-1969)
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