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Great Immigrants, Great Americans

In 2026, the National Council of Teachers of English partnered with the Andrew Carnegie Foundation to create lessons plans for a specially-produced comic book about immigrants.

Creators Assemble!

The nonprofit promotes comic books, graphic novels, and role-playing games as education tools while helping teachers and librarians effectively use them in their classrooms and communities.

Spider-Man and Attica State

Four months before the takeover of the Attica Correctional Facility in September 1971, Spider-Man ended a similar prison riot, then spoke out on behalf of the prisoners on The Tonight Show.

Popular Culture in the Classroom and Beyond

The first college course on comic books was taught at Indiana University in 1972. Since then, comics have been incorporated into classrooms across the country at an exponential rate. Nonprofit organizations have likewise popped up to help promote the use of pop culture as an education tool and launch their own learning initiatives. Many preexisting organizations, meanwhile, have created original comic books to teach young and old alike about not only history but physics, mathematics, and the homeless. Remixing History contains sections on each of these areas, making it a one-stop website for those interested in the use of popular culture in the classroom.

Star Wars in the Classroom

High school teachers Thomas Riddle and Wes Dodgens created an online community in 2012 for fellow educators to share ways that the George Lucas saga could be used as an education tool.

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Exploring History Through Comic Books, Superheroes, and Popular Culture

Remixing History also explores individual comic books through the lens of the real-world events that shaped their narratives. By intertwining these fictional stories with their factual counterparts, a hybrid narrative is created that not only offers a unique perspective but serves as a gateway to further understanding of both the past and the present. They also demonstrate the educational value of fictional narratives in both high school and college classrooms, as well as how comic books can be interpreted as historical artifacts. Remixing History sorts these articles into categories, offering a convenient way to locate specific time periods and their fictional counterparts.

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.