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+ american history, comics, history, image comics, jason shawn alexander, jupiter evans, killadelphia, rodney barnes, thomas jefferson

The Narratives of History in “Killadelphia” Part I

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This semester, in my “Monsters, Race, and Comics” course, I’m teaching the first two volumes of Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander’s Killadelphia. Recently, I just reread both volumes, which contain the first 12 issues of the series. There is a lot within these issues that, combined with everything else we read this semester, I want to explore with students. Specifically, I want to have … Read More The Narratives of History in “Killadelphia” Part I

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+ Ari Kelman, civil war, colfax, comics, graphic novels, history, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm

Thread in Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman’s “Battle Lines”

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Ryan Franklin, one of my colleagues, teaches a Graphic History course every year. For the class, Franklin chooses various graphic novels and memoirs that focus on historical events and individuals to teach students about historiography and research. One of the books he uses is Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman’s Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War (2015). When I saw this book … Read More Thread in Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman’s “Battle Lines”

+ american history, andrew aydin, civil rights, comics, fannie lou hamer, graphic memoir, graphic novels, history, john lewis, nate powell

Conversation with Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell about “March”

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Over the course of this semester in my Multicultural America Literature course, I have had conversations with various authors and scholars such as Kiku Hughes (Displacement), Lila Quintero Weaver (Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White), Eir-Anne Edgar and Michael Dando discussing Maus, Jennifer Morrison discussing Of Love and Dust, and more. We concluded the course by reading John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate … Read More Conversation with Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell about “March”

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+ american history, andrew aydin, civil rights, comics, fannie lou hamer, graphic memoir, graphic novels, history, john lewis, keisha blain, march, nate powell

Fannie Lou Hamer in “March”: Part II

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In the last post, I started looking at the ways that John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell depict Fannie Lou Hamer’s speech in front of the Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention in 1964. Today, I want to finish looking at that sequence, focusing on the latter part of Hamer’s speech and moving into her interaction with Hubert H. Humphrey later during … Read More Fannie Lou Hamer in “March”: Part II

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+ andrew aydin, comics, graphic memoir, graphic novels, history, john lewis, lillian e smith, march, nate powell

History, Comics, and the Civil Rights Movement

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This semester, I am teaching two Civil Rights era memoirs: Lila Quintero Weaver’s Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White and John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell’s March Trilogy. I thoroughly enjoy these texts, and I enjoy teaching them. However, as I reread them, I keep thinking about what the texts don’t cover. I understand that each of these works are focused on … Read More History, Comics, and the Civil Rights Movement

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