Why I Never Found History Boring

A personal look at how I fell in love with history and why the way we teach it still needs work.

The Book I Probably Won’t Write

Someone once suggested I should write a children’s book about the Panama Canal.
I smiled, said something polite, and filed it away in the "nice idea, wrong author" part of my brain. It’s not that I don’t think kids would enjoy learning about the Canal. There’s yellow fever, international backstabbing, and a surprising numbe…