The art of studying history really stood out to me too. You're fortunate that you got that kind of history education in high school. In US high schools, histo

The art of studying history really stood out to me too. You're fortunate that you got that kind of history education in high school. In US high schools, history is very much about memorizing facts and figures and I think it probably ruins history for a lot of people. In my first year of high school, my history teacher was the football coach. He taught historical facts to us like he probably taught plays to his players, and I hated it. Other teachers weren't much better, but fortunately in my last year I had an inspiring history teacher, and that was enough to get me to try it out at university, where it was a radically different and much better experience. To the Americans on HN who are still in college: if you hated history in high school, give it another chance because you may be pleasantly surprised.