Comics and the Real World

Heroes Against Hunger

Anthony Letizia -
In 1986, DC Comics published a special benefit comic featuring Batman and Superman fighting famine in Africa that was part of a world-wide effort to raise funds for the real-world Ethiopia.

Captain America: Home of the Brave

Champions: Sheriff Studdard and Daly County

Ms. Marvel and Voting in America

Starfire: Apartheid No More

Champions: Mitigating Climate Change

Champions: This is Not a Drill

Iron Man: Behind Enemy Lines

Black Panther: Making a Stand in South Africa

Green Arrow and His Times

Green Arrow: Salvadoran Sanctuary

Anthony Letizia -
During the early 1980s, Oliver Queen becomes part of the real-world Sanctuary Movement when political refugees from El Salvador are threatened with deportation by the U.S. government.

Green Arrow: The Population Bomb

Green Arrow: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Green Arrow: The Dakota Access Pipeline

Green Arrow: The Native American Movement

Green Arrow: Racial Profiling

Green Arrow: The Homeless of Seattle

Green Arrow: The 2016 Presidential Election

The Transformation of a Kennedy and a Queen

Reflections of the Small Screen

Fringe and Mind Control

Anthony Letizia -
Exploration of the mind control experiments performed on the television drama Fringe and the actual research conducted by the CIA’s MK-Ultra Project, with emphasis on the effects of LSD.

Person of Interest and the Shadow Factory

Grimm and the Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

Leverage and The Big Con

Warehouse 13: Snag, Bag and Tag

Grimm and the Brothers Grimm

Castle: Prohibition and New York City

Watchmen: Nothing Ever Ends

Fringe and the Physics of the Impossible

ABOUT REMIXING HISTORY

Popular culture often serves as a mirror into the past and present through narratives that reflect the real world. Remixing History intertwines these fictional stories with their factual counterparts, creating a hybrid history and better understanding of our times in the process.

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