Hey, fellow history nerds and reluctant parents/teachers — if you’ve ever wished your kid (or student… or spouse) would care about the past as much as they care about TikTok, I’ve got the ultimate hack: stop forcing dry textbooks on them and start sneaking history in through heart-wrenching, page-turning historical Continue Reading
Why Historical Fiction Is the Ultimate Cheat Code to Falling Madly in Love with History (And Actually Remembering It Forever)
Close your eyes for a second and picture this: You’re 15 years old. History class is a snooze-fest of dates and dead guys.Then someone slips you a novel.Six hundred pages later, you’re sobbing at 4 a.m., texting your friends “DID YOU KNOW THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED?!” and voluntarily—VOLUNTARILY—opening a 400-page history Continue Reading
How This “Comic Book About the Holocaust” Wrecked Me
**I wasn’t ready for Maus. Honestly, no one ever is.** A couple of months ago, I picked up Art Spiegelman’s Maus for the first time. I thought I knew what I was in for: “Oh, the famous Holocaust graphic novel with the mice and cats, right?” Yeah… I had no Continue Reading
