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Pop Culture and Education

Integrating Pop Culture Into the Academic Library

Anthony Letizia -
Librarians from across the country explain the ways pop culture can be used in the library, from teaching how to conduct academic research to making pop culture part of a library’s collections.

Teaching with the Beatles

Good Trouble Comics

Spectra: The Original Laser Superhero

Civics for All Comics Group

Pop Culture Classroom

Cosplay for Science Initiative

Teaching History with Popular Media

Comics @ San Diego State University

The Marvel Age of Comics

The Avengers: The Rise and Fall of McCarthyism

Anthony Letizia -
In 1971, the Avengers are called to testify before the Aliens Activities Committee, which shared similarities with U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s “red scare” investigations during the 1950s.

The Incredible Hulk and the University of Wisconsin

Red Wolf and the Occupation of Alcatraz

The Hulk, Bruce Banner, and Robert Oppenheimer

Mary Jane Watson: Go-Go Dancer

The X-Men and Greenwich Village

Wyatt Wingfoot: The Fish-In Protests

The Fantastic Four Meet the Beatles

Spider-Man: The My Lai Massacre

Green Arrow and His Times

The Justice League of America Battles Pollution

Anthony Letizia -
In a DC comic published to coincided with the first Earth Day in April 1970, the Justice League of America encounter a burning river similar to the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland at the time.

Green Arrow: The 2016 Presidential Election

Green Arrow: Toxic Revenge

Green Arrow: The Dakota Access Pipeline

Green Arrow: Love Canal and Toxic Waste

Green Arrow: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Green Arrow: The Homeless of Seattle

Green Arrow: Racial Profiling

Green Arrow: Journey to Appalachia

Comic Books and the Real World

Sam Wilson: The U.S.-Mexican Border

Anthony Letizia -
Sam Wilson, the newly anointed Captain American in the Marvel Comics Universe, defended migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican border despite the political controversy of his actions.

Superman’s Mission for President Kennedy

Batman: The Theft of the Mona Lisa

The Unstoppable Wasp and G.I.R.L.

Starfire: Apartheid No More

Captain America and Spider-Man Walk the Freedom Trail

Captain America: Punching American Nazis

Steve Rogers vs. the German American Bund

Heroes Against Hunger

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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