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Pop Culture and Education

Teaching History with Popular Media

Professor Chad William Timm of Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, discusses ways that music, graphic narratives, and movies can be effectively incorporated into the history classroom.

The Marvel Age of Comics

Mary Jane Watson: Go-Go Dancer

The self-proclaimed party girl and friend of Spider-Man alter ego Peter Parker dressed in the latest fashions during the 1960s and even briefly got a job as a go-go dancer in a local nightclub.

Green Arrow and His Times

Green Arrow: The Homeless of Seattle

Green Arrow interacted with many of Seattle’s homeless during writer Mike Grell’s classic comic book series, and acts as a fictional counterpart to the actual homeless situation in the city.

Comic Books and the Real World

She-Hulk and the Thing: Disaster at Diablo Reactor

The Thing and She-Hulk prevent a nuclear disaster from erupting at Diablo Canyon in 1982, the site of a real-world nuclear power plant that thousands protested against for close to a decade.