You about world war ii food provisions and how that can be an awesome thing to teach and do an activity with in the classroom. Please help me in welcoming karen. [ applause ] good morning, everyone. All good morning. I hope everyones had a good week so far. I certainly did whenever i was here a couple years ago. So this morning im going to talk to you about the food fights or rationing in world war ii. We all know that teenagers and most of us work with teenagers have large appetites. I have one at home with an incredibly large appetite. Id like to try to engage kids with a 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 that 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 lib lated in the civilian p
Provisions and how that can be an awesome thing to do an activity with. Please help me in welcoming karen. Good morning everyone. I hope everyone has had a good week so far. This morning im going to talk to about rationing in world war ii. We all know that teenagers and most of his work with teenagers have large appetite. I have one at home with an incredibly large appetite. I like to try and engage kids with the topic that not only fits their appetite but also increases their appetite for learning. I find that food is often times in engaging topic. Napoleon or frederick the great, depending on who you listen to 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 population. The people of the United States had to implement solutions to foundational problems. Food production and distribution. The solution impact not only wartime provisioning b
About a big issue that goes throughout the civil war era, that we need to look at in the antebellum and the civil war and reconstruction to understand. That question is the United States constitution. One of the things historians have been asking for generations about the constitution and the civil war era, basic questions as to what degree did the constitution shape the civil war era . To what degree did make political actors do certain things . Constrained them or guide their actions . To what degree did the civil war shape the constitution . Some of this is very clear in the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments which directly changed the constitution but also different views of it. One of the things people have looked at, looking back at the u. S. Constitution during the civil war era is how different people, particularly president s, have interacted with it. Have they followed it, tried to defend it, did they abridge it . It shapes how people think of president s during civil war era. Th
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
Crystal we are here in the extreme history project offices which used to be a historic brothel. Extreme history is a nonprofit that is located here in bozeman. We bring history to the public in fund engaging and relevant ways. We do historic walking tours throughout the summer. We do a lecture series in the winter and we do workshops and other events around history. We try to get people to engage in history. What better way then in a historic brothel . In the 1980s, there was a real push to uncover more of the social history. In doing that, there is more to history than just wars and generals and all of those things that we have been studying as historians for many years. We started looking at womens history. We started looking at Minority Community history. We really discovered that there is so much more to tell within these narratives that we constructed over the years. That is really how the extreme history project was formed. A colleague of mine started thinking about all of the st