How often have you heard someone exclaim, “history is boring, history is dumb, why study stuff that happened a long time ago?” High school history was often taught by some big, strapping guy with a terrible cigarette cough and an explosive temper named, Bud, Spike or Buzz. Guys whose true avocation was to coach full-time, but unable to do so in smaller schools. But nevertheless, they droned on year-after-year with the same notes they’ve used for the past two decades. You walked away hating history and all it stood for because all you could recall is those much too long, and much t...