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Adventures in Learning with Indiana Jones

A South Carolina school teacher recognized the educational value of the early 1990s television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and developed a curriculum around the narratives.

The Marvel Age of Comics

The Avengers: The Rise and Fall of McCarthyism

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.

Green Arrow and His Times

Green Arrow: Salvadoran Sanctuary

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.

Comic Books and the Real World

A Captain America History of the United States

In 1976, comic book legend Jack Kirby sent Captain America traveling through time in a brief history of the United States that reads like a cross between Howard Zinn and Jill Lepore.