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Lectures in History: Popular Culture & World War II

Jimmy Stewart, 1943

Jimmy Stewart, 1943

West Lafayette, Indiana
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Purdue University history professor Randy Roberts examines the connections between popular culture and World War II in films such as "Casablanca" and "The Fighting Seabees," and in songs such as "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B."  Professor Roberts also describes how patriotic sentiments made their way into comic books like Captain America.

Updated: Monday, January 14, 2013 at 10am (ET)

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