Next, on American History tv, Virginia High School teachers Becky Morrison and Irene Winchester given illustrated talk about world war ii and clothes rationing. They explored government restrictions on styles and colors, and its impact on innovations in fashion such as cork wedge heels, shorter hemlines, and glow in the dark buttons. Friends of the National World war ii memorial hosted this talk as a part of their annual teachers conference. Invitee are excited to Becky Morrison and irene fashioner talk about rationing during world war ii. Another teacher from her school. Welcoming themin up for their presentation. [applause] she stole my line because i was going to say, this is probably the best teacher conference you can ever go to. That is why i brought irene. This is my third year. I want you guys to go back to your school and encourage all of your teacher friends to come because this is such a valuable conference. Thank you friends of the world war ii memorial for inviting me back
Provisions and how that can be an awesome thing to do an activity with. Please help me in welcoming karyn. Karyn good morning, everyone. I hope everyone has had a good week so far. This morning im going to talk rationing,ght, or and world war ii. We all know that teenagers and most of his work with teenagers have large appetites. I have one at home with an incredibly large appetites. I like to try and engage kids with the topic that not only fits their appetite, but also increases their appetite for learning. And i find that food is oftentimes a very engaging topic. Napoleon or frederick the great, depending on who you listen to, once said an army , marches on its stomach. To supply not just the u. S. Army but increasingly throughout world war ii, also that of our allies, prisoners of war and those who we liberated in the civilian populations the people , of the United States had to implement solutions to , foodtional problems production and distribution. The solution impact not only w
Cork wedge heels, shorter hemlines, and glow in the dark buttons. Friends of the National World war ii memorial hosted this talk as a part of their annual teachers conference. Irene winchester talk about so we are excited to invite Becky Morrison and Irene Winchester talk about fashion rationing during world war ii. She brought another teacher from her school. Please join me in welcoming them up for their presentation. [applause] Becky Morrison she stole my line because i was going to say, this is probably the best teacher conference you can ever go to. That is why i brought irene. This is my third year. I want you guys to go back to your school and encourage all of your teacher friends to come because this is such a valuable conference. Thank you friends of the world war ii memorial for inviting me back. Irene and i are going to talk about fashion on the ration. In the United States, we did not ration clothing as much as the british did, but we had some severe restrictions on rationin
Thank you for coming. And thank you to all of you for being here, and thank you to our speaker for making it here. We had planned for him to come to a Different Event some time ago and the weather got in the way. This time, the weather did not prevent him from arriving and we are so excited to have Steve Woodworth. He taught for eight years at toccoa, so he has some good georgia roots in that area, and he went on to texas christian university, where he is the powerhouse. The people who say, who should i study with . He is one of the first names to come up for them and for me. One of my first books of steves was Jefferson Davis as general. It was an area that did not have his name associated with it. I picked of volume that had a thomas connection, the chickamauga campaign. Steve has coedited many more than that. I asked him, i said have you continued to produce looks at the same level that you produce children, as he has a huge family. The absolute nicest people in the world, just a ge
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