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In case you missed it (or maybe you didn't and want to listen again or maybe you want to share the information with colleagues), the recording for the webinar, For the Individual & Common
In case you missed it (or maybe you didn't and want to listen again or maybe you want to share the information with colleagues), the recording for the webinar, For the Individual & Common Good: How Social Welfare Agencies Used Comics to Create Better Citizens is now available.
Join Archivist, Linnea Anderson, from the University of Minnesota Libraries as she explores a unique collection in the Social Welfare History Archives. She uses examples from the collections that feature some favorite and some little known characters to show how social agencies and comic publishers used comics to instill social values.
Short comics were employed as stand-alone teaching tools or were inserted into popular series in order to promote a range of social messages including fair play, racial and religious understanding, a democratic vision of U.S. history, international relations and America’s role in the postwar world, personal values, health and safety, and citizenship.
