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Now, see? History can be presented in a manner of keeping our interest. History is interesting--it's where we came from, after all; it has everything to do with the way we are now; and we sometimes have been able to learn from our mistakes. So why, oh WHY, are history textbooks so darned boring?!? I had hoped they'd improved by the time my kids got to the level of taking history classes; I picked up one of their books and was putting it down again by the third sentence.



The problem isn't that history is boring, it's that it's too damned interesting; and that is why history textbooks are are so damned boring.

Last edited by inselpeter; 03/31/06 02:23 AM.