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Pop Culture and Education

Integrating Pop Culture Into the Academic Library

Anthony Letizia -
Librarians from across the country explain the ways pop culture can be used in the library, from teaching how to conduct academic research to making pop culture part of a library’s collections.

Reacting to the Past

Comics @ San Diego State University

Adventures in Learning with Indiana Jones

Spectra: The Original Laser Superhero

Solution Squad

Marvel’s 1776

Red Dead’s History

Star Trek’s Philosophy of Peace and Justice

The Marvel Age of Comics

The Hulk, Bruce Banner, and Robert Oppenheimer

Anthony Letizia -
Both Bruce Banner of the fictional Marvel Comics Universe and real-world physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer were suspected and investigated of being Soviet spies during the 1950s and 1960s.

The Incredible Hulk and the University of Wisconsin

Captain America and Altamont Speedway

Marvel and the Military-Industrial Complex

The Fantastic Four and Apollo 11

Red Wolf and the Occupation of Alcatraz

Spider-Man: The My Lai Massacre

The X-Men and Greenwich Village

The Fantastic Four Meet the Beatles

Green Arrow and His Times

Green Arrow: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Anthony Letizia -
On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez was making its way through Prince William Sound after having been fully loaded with crude oil...

Green Arrow: Love Canal and Toxic Waste

Green Arrow: The Native American Movement

Green Arrow: The Dakota Access Pipeline

Green Arrow: The 2016 Presidential Election

Green Arrow: Racial Profiling

Green Arrow: Toxic Revenge

Green Arrow: The Homeless of Seattle

Green Arrow: Salvadoran Sanctuary

Comic Books and the Real World

A Captain America History of the United States

Anthony Letizia -
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.

Captain America: Punching American Nazis

Champions: Mitigating Climate Change

The Marvel Age of Comics

Superman and the New Deal

Champions: This is Not a Drill

A Spider-Man Tourist Guide to Pittsburgh

Superman’s Mission for President Kennedy

Heroes Against Hunger