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Teaching with the Beatles

The rock band has found their way into colleges and universities around the world in classes not only about their music but their influence on the 1960s and the history of the decade as well.

Necessary Trouble Archives

Hunger Action Heroes Unite!

Pop Culture Classroom

Solution Squad

Now What?!

Set Phasers to Teach

The Marvel Age of Comics

Spider-Man: The My Lai Massacre

The tragic massacre during the Vietnam War is explored alongside Flash Thompson’s failed attempt keep a sacred temple from being bombed when he was drafted and sent to Vietnam.

Green Arrow and His Times

Green Arrow: Toxic Revenge

The Emerald Archer investigates a series of strange murders tied to a chemical company and housing community that shares similarities with toxic contamination in Afton, North Carolina.

Comic Books and the Real World

Superman and the Declaration of Independence

During the American Bicentennial in 1976, Superman is sent back in time by the alien Karb-Brak to the year 1776, where he witnesses the historic signing of the Declaration of Independence.