I wish I had learned about the Byzantine Empire in second grade. I wish I had learned about how it came after Rome, which came after Athens, which came after The Iliad. I wish someone had explained: “History is one big story.”
Even as a kid, I understood that stories have plot, characters, and tension. Drama!
But history, as I received it, had a heavy tex…
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