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In The Simpsons’ series, references to historical events are not random, but constant and numerous. While reading this book you will enjoy the “yellow world” related to the history of Western World.
The Simpson’s genealogy begins in Middle Age in Europe, up to the birth of the United States. Thanks to the series we will relive the most important historical facts: from the Pilgrim Fathers to the Age of Prohibition, from the conquest of the American West to the Vietnam war. We will live the passage from “the short 20th century” to the new millenium, until nowadays.
And there are also a few (dark) anticipation of the future, for example, the election of Donald Trump. So, in nearly 600 episodes, we have “a simpson version” of all the crucial moments of the American and European history.
...and what about the future? Which historical “yellow” predictions will come true?

ntroduction
Part I.     American History S
    Simpons’ Genealogy
    From the Middle Age to the Twentieth Century
    Birth of a Nation
    Lisa, Bart and the “invention” of the tradition
Part II.    The Simpsons “short 20th century”
    Homer and the Age of Prohibition
    The Abe’s wars
    Skinner in Vietnam
    Mona and the hippie counter-culture
Part III.   Yellow: the colour of the crisis
    Watergate scandal
    The Cold War
    Crisis of a superpower
    The long shadows of the 20th century
Historical Personalities
List of episodes mentioned in the book
Bibliography and webography

Giancarlo Poidomani is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Catania. He published many articles, and gave a lot of lectures and conferences about italian and international history. He is a devoted and passionated fan of The Simpsons series.