Whoa, go French teacher! *applauds* I'm glad you had a good one to make up for your US history teacher.
I also learned much of my history (not Fritz, though) in high school from historical fiction. Well, a weird self-taught mixture of history and historical fiction--I'd read the fiction to make the history stick in my memory, and the history to know what I should and shouldn't believe in the fiction. It worked pretty well: much of what I've been regurgitating for you the last few days is from 20-year-old memories. (I'll admit I was a bit nervous writing the Seven Years' War summary and relieved when selenak didn't find any egregious errors and gave it the seal of approval.)
Well, and then there was the part where I spent a good half of high school writing an 18th-century alternate history military history novel that I abandoned at 800 pages, because that's so on-brand for me. *That*'ll fix stuff in your memory! (Fritz was a fairly minor secondary character in this novel, but it was specifically researching this novel that led me to discover who he was, fall in love within the first few minutes of flipping through a short bio, proceed to read everything I could get my hands on, and spend the next two years trying to keep him from playing an unrealistically large role in my plot, haha. Then, when I abandoned this novel, I handed him over to my immortal Mary Sue character and said, "Here, he can fit into your eventful life story. Have fun.")
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Re: God save our Saxon cousins
Date: 2019-08-25 04:13 am (UTC)I also learned much of my history (not Fritz, though) in high school from historical fiction. Well, a weird self-taught mixture of history and historical fiction--I'd read the fiction to make the history stick in my memory, and the history to know what I should and shouldn't believe in the fiction. It worked pretty well: much of what I've been regurgitating for you the last few days is from 20-year-old memories. (I'll admit I was a bit nervous writing the Seven Years' War summary and relieved when
Well, and then there was the part where I spent a good half of high school writing an 18th-century alternate history military history novel that I abandoned at 800 pages, because that's so on-brand for me. *That*'ll fix stuff in your memory! (Fritz was a fairly minor secondary character in this novel, but it was specifically researching this novel that led me to discover who he was, fall in love within the first few minutes of flipping through a short bio, proceed to read everything I could get my hands on, and spend the next two years trying to keep him from playing an unrealistically large role in my plot, haha. Then, when I abandoned this novel, I handed him over to my immortal Mary Sue character and said, "Here, he can fit into your eventful life story. Have fun.")