omfg you had a history discussion and the actual history teacher in the thread wasn't there
because she had a class discussion group to run
on history
What better is there to do lol
(That said, I'm currently in school, ugh. British history sounds a lot easier than it is.)
Keeping an eye on the forums, though.
It's gotta be more interesting than US history. From fifth grade through high school we were only ever taught something like the 1850s through WWII. We also were only ever taught "World History" once and even then it pretty much just focused on the US(somehow). At least the British did stuff.
Ugh I've heard US history since I was in 3rd or 4th grade, give me world history any day. History was actually my original major when I started high school before I changed it to Psychology.
Aw, come on, guys!
I'll give you that repetition makes something insanely boring. For example, if I never read another thing about the Second World War for the rest of my life, I'll be happy. (I'm not going to be happy.) But there's something for everybody in the history of every country, I guarantee it.
Problem is that when you teach a class it's really kind of impossible to try to find something that each individual person is interested in. Sometimes there's a narrative you have to focus on, sometimes there's not much time, sometimes there's too many students...it's always something. But when you can get somebody really, truly interested in
one thing about a given historical topic, everything else just becomes that much more bearable.
I think it might be the way it is taught. In my early schooling most of my Australian history was tedious stories about the pre-federation era and numerous accounts of one particular military catastrophe in the First World War, which is supposed to form the foundation of culture or something. Later on I learnt things which actually made coherent and interesting stories, and were genuinely important. Foreign history I've learnt has always been taught like the later.
That's another thing, too. History in primary and secondary schools is usually standardized narrative pablum designed for whatever patriotic/exculpatory/guilt-trip thing that the state wants kids to focus on. There's not a whole lot of emphasis on why the kids should care.
Ooh history convo awesome, love history, fav subject in school next to art. Continued to study it happily in my college years, Irish and European, good times! 
I love US history myself, in fact The Civil War Era was my favourite era of American history, fascinating to learn about it, it ties into my interest in Native American culture/history also. Did my thesis on how they were represented in film/media from the silent era to present time. Really interesting, enjoyed writing it alot.
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