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I love history in spite of my education
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Worst kind of history teaching. My mother said that was how they taught history in school when she was young, and I'm sure there are backward-ass school curriculums today still doing that. That probably would've killed my youthful enthusiasm for history. Luckily, my state's public schools gave a very modern, engaging form of history.
It's honestly contrary to the core idea of History as a discipline - a chronicle or a timeline isn't History. History is about making sense of the past.
The best history teachers I ever encountered were storytellers more than anything. Names and dates are meaningless if you can't connect them with personalities, motivations, and all the social/political/ideological baggage that make humans do human things.
BTW, to echo something another user said to you a few days ago: thanks for recommending Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. It's my bedtime reading right now and I'm loving it.
I'm still not great with dates, honestly, and I went to college for this shit. XD
It's awesome to hear that I managed to get the word out a little! I'm glad you're enjoying it!