Teaching History Through Comic Books: Opportunities for Public & Visual History
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Amie Wright
Abstract
Of the many and diverse ways public history is put to work in the world, visual history is one of largest including museum exhibits, video games, monuments, zines, films, art installations, digital collections, graphic novels, and other popular media. Yet, for all of the diversity and vibrance of public history works, public history pedagogy and practice tends to still be text-based. Building on transdisciplinary approaches from art history, comic studies, and education as well as the author’s own experiences teaching, this paper explores new opportunities and approaches for historical education through comic books. Based on specific examples and potentials for graphic history didactics in Canada and United States the article proposes universal takeaways for teaching critical visual inquiry skills through the use of comics and graphic novels throughout public history. As the diversity of public history works grow, so too should our practice and pedagogy.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Public History as Graphic History
- The Graphic Anne: Anne Frank Comics as Transnational Lieu de Mémoire
- Illustrating History: April 25th in Portuguese Comics
- Teaching History Through Comic Books: Opportunities for Public & Visual History
- When Comics Become Part of a Thesis Project
- Making the Invisible and Private, Seen and Public: Roundtable Conversation on the Potentials of Graphic Medicine for Public History
- Graphic Collections and Resources
- The Tenses of Historical Consciousness: The Impact of Memory Work Within the Colombian Education Community
