International Public History: Teaching History Through Comic Books

Einleitung by Amie Wright and Christine Gundermann
De Gruyter
2024
ISSN: 2567-1111

Christine Gundermann and Amie Wright have co-edited this new special issue on “Teaching History Through Comic Books” and have contributed and supervised numerous articles that attempt to present comics research and the use of comics as broadly and interdisciplinarily as possible. Some contributions are already open access, others are yet to be released as such:

Introduction by Amie Wright and Christine Gundermann

“The Graphic Anne: Anne Frank Comics as Transnational Lieux de Mémoire” by Christine Gundermann

“Illustrating History: April 25th and Its Legacy in Portuguese Comics” by Alexandra Lourenco Dias

“Teaching History Through Comic Books: New Opportunities for Public and Visual History” by Amie Wright

Visualizing the ‘Godmothers’ of the First World War: About the perks of writing a hybrid theses in image and text” by Aliénor Gandanger

Roundtable Conversation – ‘Making the Invisible and Private Seen and Public: On the Potentials of Graphic Medicine for Public History’, a discussion by Matthew Noe, Ian Williams, Soha Bayoum and Eugenia Garcia Amor

Graphic Collections and Resources

• Katharina Hülsmann: Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subcultures
• Barbara Margarethe Eggert: nextcomic Festival (Austria)
• Felipe Gómez-Gutiérrez: Latin American Comics Archive (LACA) – Carnegie Mellon
• Felix Giesa: Comic Archive at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Institute of Children’s and Young Adult Literature Research
• Astrid Böger: The Center for the study of Graphic Literature @ University of Hamburg
• Graphic Medicine Collection – Harvard Medical (Boston, USA)

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