[GenXteacher]

“Throughout the 20th century History was made more politically correct, more timid, bloodless, and unfocused, more a vehicle for social engineering, more wimpy. Soon History had all the intellectual excitement of an infomercial for a new vegetable slicer.”

Through some oversight, we don’t have a state-mandated test for World History here in NC....so, I can bend the curriculum somewhat...and pretty much stick to war, politics, philosophy, science and technology, in my teaching. Drums and trumpets.....

[FourPeas]

I have boys and they all really enjoy history. We study it in terms of wars, weaponry, inventions, and buildings. It’s amazing how much can be learned about people by the way, or the reasons, they wage war.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Honey, you have GOT to read Tacitus. He is the original psychological historian. And what is so super cool, is the fact that Tacitus had access to secret documents, so he actually knew what he was describing. The real plum is his "Annals" get your hands on the Michael Grant translation - its better than the rest.