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Pop Culture and Education

Teaching History with Popular Media

Professor Chad William Timm of Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, discusses ways that music, graphic narratives, and movies can be effectively incorporated into the history classroom.

Star Wars in the Classroom

Hunger Action Heroes Unite!

STEAM Superheroes

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Pop Culture Classroom

Red Dead’s History

The Marvel Age of Comics

Spider-Man and Project Mercury

The amazing Spider-Man helps a crippled space capsule return safely to Earth while the real-world Mercury Seven astronauts wait for the opportunity to travel into the vast unknown.

Green Arrow and His Times

Green Arrow: The Homeless of Seattle

Green Arrow interacted with many of Seattle’s homeless during writer Mike Grell’s classic comic book series, and acts as a fictional counterpart to the actual homeless situation in the city.

Comic Books and the Real World

Captain America: Punching American Nazis

While Captain America was punching Adolf Hitler on the cover of his self-named comic book, American gangsters were doing the same on the streets of New York City in the late 1930s.