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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 ...

Might see on the news today. Its hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing at sea refugees are suffering and suffocating in meat tracks, crowding onto leaky boats and rounding the bodies of those who are unable to cross the safety are washing up on mediterranean beaches. Refugees of been in the news for the past few years, particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. So, were not just talking about refugees coming from syria but from other wartorn region. In the past couple years its been very difficult to ignore th...

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the National World War Ii Museum. All of those of you sitting here and to those watching on the live stream, i know you are out there and with us in spirit and we feel your presence too. As many of you probably no dr. Rob satino im here at the museum and executive direct of the institute for the study of war and democracy. Tonight is the latest installment of our meet the author series and we always like to mention our sponsor we bring this to you with the generous sport of the Strake Foundation and couldnt do it without them thank you. The many have been to ...

Next, on american artifacts, we visit a exhibit on world war ii, soviet soldiers. My name is craig hall, basically i consider myself a amateur military historian i do various impressions. This impression here today, is to represent the contribution of the soviet union, as an ally of the americans and british. To helping them win world war ii. We have to give you the people credit to our allies. Some would say, we couldnt have done it by ourselves the point is, people ask me why do i do this impression, i think because the reason is we need to tell the story about the eastern. The Eastern Front...

[tapping glass] mr. Burt okay, were going to get underway. I am richard burt, and my day job is i am a managing partner at mclarty and associates, but im also a member of the board of the center for the National Interest and i might add, a member of the board of the atlantic council. In both these capacities and having spent time at both think tanks, i can tell you quite sincerely that the lunches at the center for the National Interests are far better than the atlantic council. [laughing] [laughter] and to top off this excellent lunch we have a great dessert. That is ambassador john herbst, w...