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Aurora History as Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy

Anthony Letizia -
The Aurora History Museum in Colorado teamed up with Pop Culture Classroom to create a Dungeons & Dragons adventure that blended factual history with the fantasy of the game.

Teaching with the Beatles

Comic Book Conventions and New York Public Schools

Pop Culture Hero Coalition

Solution Squad

Civics for All Comics Group

Teaching History with Popular Media

Teaching Public Administration with Pop Culture

Hunger Action Heroes Unite!

The Marvel Age of Comics

Spider-Man: The My Lai Massacre

Anthony Letizia -
The tragic massacre during the Vietnam War is explored alongside Flash Thompson’s failed attempt keep a sacred temple from being bombed when he was drafted and sent to Vietnam.

Wyatt Wingfoot: The Fish-In Protests

The Avengers: The Rise and Fall of McCarthyism

The Hulk, Bruce Banner, and Robert Oppenheimer

The X-Men and Greenwich Village

Spider-Man and Project Mercury

The Fantastic Four Meet the Beatles

The Fantastic Four and Apollo 11

Mary Jane Watson: Go-Go Dancer

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 Death of John Lennon

Green Arrow: The Dakota Access Pipeline

Green Arrow: Toxic Revenge

Green Arrow: Salvadoran Sanctuary

Green Arrow: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Green Arrow: The Native American Movement

Green Arrow: The Homeless of Seattle

The Transformation of a Kennedy and a Queen

Comic Books and the Real World

Star Trek: Threads of Destiny

Anthony Letizia -
Actress Nichelle Nichols met civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1967 while her Star Trek character Lieutenant Nyota Uhura had a similar encounter in a February 2026 comic book.

The Incredible Hulk: In the Shadow of AIDS

Captain America and Patriotism: Rambo vs. Springsteen

Champions: This is Not a Drill

Batman: The Theft of the Mona Lisa

Captain America and Spider-Man Walk the Freedom Trail

Superman vs. the Slums

A Captain America History of the United States

A Spider-Man Tourist Guide to Pittsburgh

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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