Comic books and American cultural history: an anthology

Abstract

Introduction Books as History Teachers By Matthew Pustz Part I: Doing Cultural History Through Comic Books 1. How Wonder Woman Helped My Students 'Join the Conversation:' Comic Books as Teaching Tools in a History Methodology Course By Jessamyn Neuhaus 2. Comics as Primary Sources: Case of Journey into Mohawk Country By Bridget M. Marshall 3. Transcending the Frontier Myth: Dime Novel Narration and (Jesse) Custer's Last Stand in Preacher By William Grady 4. 'Duel. I'll Give You a DUEL': Intimacy and History in Megan Kelso's Alexander Hamilton Trilogy By Alison Mandaville Part II: Comic Books as Cultural Artifacts 1. Golem: Reading America through Super-New Dealers and 'the Melting Pot' By Martin Lund 2. 'Dreams May End, But Love Never Does': Marriage and Materialism in American Romance Comics, 1947-1954 By Jeanne Emerson Gardner 3. Parody and Propaganda: Fighting American and Battle Against Crime and Communism in the 1950s By John Donovan 4. Grasping for Identity: Hands of Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu By Peter Lee 5. 'Paralysis and Stagnation and Drift': America's Malaise as Demonstrated in Comic Books of the 1970s By Matthew Pustz 6. The Shopping Malls of Empire: Cultural Fragmentation, the New Media, and Consumerism in Howard Chaykin's American Flagg! By Matthew J. Costello Part III: Comic Books and Historical 1. Transformers and Monkey Kings: Gene Yang's American Born Chinese and the Quest for Identity By Todd S. Munson 2. Agent of Change: Evolution and Enculturation of Nick Fury By Philip G. Payne and Paul S. Spaeth 3. The US HIV/AIDS Crisis and the Negotiation of Queer in Comics, or, Is Northstar Still a A Fairy? By Ben Bolling Part IV: Comic Books and Contemporary History 1. The Militarism of American Superheroes After 9/11 By A. David Lewis 2. Septemeber 11, 2001: Witnessing History, Demythifying the Story in American Widow By Yves Davo 3. 'The Great Machine Doesn't Wear a Cape!': American Cultural Anxiety and the Post-9/11 Superhero By Jeff Geers.

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