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Pop Culture and Education

Drawn to Home

The Pittsburgh-created comic book told the story of nine local individuals who had experienced homelessness at some point in their lives and complimented an earlier multimedia art exhibit.

Reacting to the Past

Pop Culture Classroom

Star Wars in the Classroom

Red Dead’s History

TeachRock

STEAM Superheroes

Set Phasers to Teach

The Marvel Age of Comics

The X-Men and Greenwich Village

During the early 1960s, Iceman and Beast from the X-Men were regular patrons of a coffeeshop in the famed New York City neighborhood, where they listened to Beat poets and quoted Bob Dylan.

Green Arrow and His Times

Green Arrow: The Population Bomb

In their 1968 book The Population Bomb, Paul and Anne Ehrlich warned against overpopulation and dangers to the environment, issues also explored by Green Arrow and Green Lantern.

Comic Books and the Real World

Superman and the Securities Exchange Act

In April 1939, Superman is given a crash course on why regulation of the stock market was necessary when he uncovers a stock swindle that wipes out the life’s savings of investors.