Featured Comics From Pop Culture Classroom

The Classroom program at Pop Culture Classroom is working to legitimize and advocate for the teaching of pop culture literacies in 21st century classrooms locally, nationally, and internationally. The Classroom provides comics, graphic novels, and teaching guides for teachers and students to further their education through sequential mediums.

Colorful History #52: SARAH WINNEMUCCA

Learn about Sarah Winnemucca and and why Reno, Nevada has a school named after her.

Colorful History #53: Jeanne Elizabeth Wier

Discover how Jeanne Elizabeth Wier's drive and passion helped preserve Nevada's history.

Colorful History #54: Inventing the American (Superhero) Dream 

Learn the story of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two first-generation Americans and the creators of Superman, and the lasting impact of this iconic hero on American Life and Culture.

COLORFUL HISTORY #55: FOLLOWING THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TO FREEDOM

This comic tells the history and legacy of the Underground Railroad, a secret network of individuals and sites throughout the United States that offered shelter, aid, and a means of escape to slaves fleeing the South during the 18th and 19th  centuries. This network is memorialized today through the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, which helps “honor, preserve and promote the history of resistance to enslavement through escape and flight” and continues to inspire people worldwide. 

Colorful History Issue #56: Watergate / Impeachment

Learn about the history and legacy of the Underground Railroad, a secret network of individuals and sites throughout the United States that offered shelter, aid, and a means of escape to fugitive slaves.

Colorful History Issue #57: Red, White, and Blue: The Origins of the U.S. Flag

This comic shows the origin and continuing legacy of the U.S. Flag by stitching together iconic moments throughout U.S. history, showing how the flag has become symbol of inspiration and freedom for American citizens all across the world.

Colorful History Issue #61: The 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment

Learn about the Suffragette Movement and the road to equal voting rights for all Americans.

Colorful History Issue #74: The Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party is often heralded as an iconic moment of patriotism and a display of American independence, but it is also a more complicated story than is often taught in schools.

Read more of Pop Culture Classroom’s Educational Comix Series here.