{"id":2175,"date":"2010-07-20T10:35:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T14:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmlinfospot.wordpress.com\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:10:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:10:28","slug":"the-scholarly-side-of-mad-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2010\/07\/20\/the-scholarly-side-of-mad-men\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scholarly Side of Mad Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’re a fan of the AMC television series Mad Men<\/em><\/a>, you’re probably anxiously awaiting the season premiere, coming up this Sunday.\u00a0 Mad Men<\/em> isn’t just a television show, though – it’s also a great excuse to do a little independent historical research and gain a deeper, more scholarly understanding of America in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

One of the reasons the show is so compelling is that the writers and producers pay very close attention to historical detail, and they often incorporate references to real-life events into the fictional characters’ lives. For example, you might remember the Drapers’ maid Carla listening to a radio broadcast of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s eulogy<\/a> for four young girls killed in the 1963 Birmingham bombing, or Pete Campbell’s father dying in the American Airlines Flight 1<\/a> crash of 1962.\u00a0 So over the next few days, why not indulge your Mad Men<\/em> madness by immersing yourself in the 1960s?\u00a0 The Weinberg Memorial Library can help!<\/p>\n