It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing 'This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it', than to fill them up with information. If I can remind them or convince them that history is interesting then I feel I have succeeded, because unlike chemistry or physics, history is a subject that anyone can teach themselves, if they are interested."[
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H.W. Brands was a contemporary American historian. Henry William Brands Jr. is an American historian. Read more on Wikipedia →

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