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Adventures in Learning with Indiana Jones

Anthony Letizia -
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.

Comic Book Conventions and New York Public Schools

Pop Culture Hero Coalition

Teaching with the Beatles

Integrating Pop Culture Into the Academic Library

STEAM Superheroes

Star Wars in the Classroom

Star Trek’s Philosophy of Peace and Justice

Set Phasers to Teach

The Marvel Age of Comics

The Avengers: The Rise and Fall of McCarthyism

Anthony Letizia -
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.

Spider-Man: The My Lai Massacre

Spider-Man and Project Mercury

The Fantastic Four and Apollo 11

The Hulk, Bruce Banner, and Robert Oppenheimer

Captain America and Altamont Speedway

Wyatt Wingfoot: The Fish-In Protests

The X-Men and Greenwich Village

The Might Thor Joins the Peace Corps

Green Arrow and His Times

Green Arrow: The Native American Movement

Anthony Letizia -
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.

Green Arrow: The Population Bomb

Green Arrow: Love Canal and Toxic Waste

Green Arrow: The 2016 Presidential Election

The Justice League of America Battles Pollution

Green Arrow: Salvadoran Sanctuary

Green Arrow: The Homeless of Seattle

Green Arrow: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

The Transformation of a Kennedy and a Queen

Comic Books and the Real World

Superman vs. the Slums

Anthony Letizia -
To keep a group of kids from turning to a life of crime, Superman forces President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal to build low-cost housing after the superhero demolishes a city slum.

A Superhero Tourist Guide to Minneapolis

A Spider-Man Tourist Guide to Pittsburgh

Superman and the New Deal

Champions: Mitigating Climate Change

Lois Lane: When It Rains, God is Crying

Champions: This is Not a Drill

Ms. Marvel and Voting in America

Nomad: The 1992 Los Angeles Riots

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