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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.

Cosplay for Science Initiative

Now What?!

Pop Culture Classroom

Reacting to the Past

Constance and Nano

Set Phasers to Teach

The Marvel Age of Comics

The Incredible Hulk and the University of Wisconsin

The Hulk became enraged at protesters at Desert State University in 1970 while real-world students protested napalm manufacturer Dow Chemical at the University of Wisconsin in 1967.

Green Arrow and His Times

Green Arrow: The Native American Movement

Green Arrow and his superhero counterpart Green Lantern assist a tribe of Native Americans involved in a lumber dispute in the Pacific Northwest that mirrored actual events in the region.

Comic Books and the Real World

Steve Rogers vs. the German American Bund

Before taking the Super Soldier serum that turned him into Captain America, a sickly Steve Rogers confronted German Nazis in New York City looking to recruit Americans to their cause.