This is obviously insane. A mixture of the big picture and the littler guy and not magically excluding half the history of your country is the way to reach people. It’s also the truth.

This just smacks of not wanting to stretch people’s brains. It’s the reason that the “Little House” book now have covers with real people laughing, even though the one book is about how they almost all died during the incredibly bleak winter. People want things familiar. The past is alien and full of real humans.

Changing history to make it easier to understand is not the way to teach it. Your endless enthusiasm is the way. If I hadn’t already loved history before I took your class, I suspect I would have soon learned.