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Pop Culture and Education

STEAM Superheroes

Inspired by Star Trek in general and trailblazing actress Nichelle Nichols in particular, the nonprofit utilizes popular culture to introduce youths to the fields of science and mathematics.

Reacting to the Past

Star Wars in the Classroom

Hunger Action Heroes Unite!

Necessary Trouble Archives

Red Dead’s History

Constance and Nano

Good Trouble Comics

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: Journey to Appalachia

Two years after Senator Robert F. Kennedy embarked on a “poverty tour” of Kentucky, Green Arrow and Green Lantern made a similar journey to a small mining town called Desolation.

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.