American history tv continues now with a discussion on innovations in art, during world war ii. We heard about propaganda cartoons, Norman Rockwell paintings, and abstract expressionist art. A 1940s and 50s movement, that included american painters, jackson and mark. Held by friends of the National World war ii memorial, this is close to an hour. My pleasure to introduce Rachelle Friedman who is going to be talking to you about innovations in art during world war ii. This is her second year coming to the conference. She was here last year. We are really excited to have her back and excited to hear her presentation on art. Please join me in welcoming rachelle. [ applause ] good morning, and thank you everybody. It is a real pleasure to be here. Last year, as you heard i was sitting in your spot and it was a really profitable conference and when the call came out, to present about innovations in world war ii, i was happy to answer that call. At the time, i thought this will be something
Would be something, very interesting in my mind at least, and some thing predictable. But i learned it is a very wide subjects. I wont cover all of it by any means. I have learned a lot. I hope you will profit as well. Living in new york, im very fortunate to be living close to the museum of modern art and also to the whitney. I take full advantage and so to my students. I think art can be a really profitable way to teach history, and i would be curious, how many of you use art or artistry in your history classes . A good number of you. And i would say in what ways, briefly come of do you use art . I dont know if we can get the microphone just for a couple. I teach english like which arts and i use art to establish Historical Context or two help show multiple perspectives on an issue. Prof. Friedman perfect. History and i do what i call quick pic vocab, where it , so it is not professional art by any means, but yeah. I teach history also and i use it to show cultural changes, to give s
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Imports at a time where other countries are rejecting them. This is v. W. Business im joined on in berlin welcome we start with the latest escalations in the straits of hormuz where 2 oil tankers were attacked earlier on thursday or Oil Prices Spiked in the aftermath with brant crude hitting over 62. 00 a barrel immediately after news of the incident broke the strait of hormuz as one of the worlds most strategically important choke points along the coast of iran almost a 3rd of all liquefied natural gas and almost 20 percent of Global Oil Production has to squeeze through here to exit the persian gulf and get out into the world. Our markets correspondent joins us now good to see the end whats been the reaction there to these attacks on wall street. Initially we saw the oil prices popping by about 3 and a half per cent but then by the end of the session we settled at around. 2 per cent and that after oil prices dropped by a good 20 percent in the month in may so at this point actually d