Here’s some news of a new boom coming soon for history buffs and Star Wars fans alike.
“The events in “,” the opening credits reveal, happened “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.” But did similar events happen before?
That is the question posed by Star Wars and History, a book planned for 2013 by the publisher John Wiley & Sons. In an e-mailposted in June, Nancy Reagin, a history professor at Pace University, and Janice Liedl, an associate professor of history at Laurentian University in Ontario, asked their peers to submit essays that explore the parallels between world history and Star Wars history.”