Storytime in 1933-1945

This time period in general has many overwhelming aspects, it is practically a burst of insanity in a short time. It was a dense time period; obviously it involved many parties and ended many lives. By starting the the chapter by explaining the legendary figures involved, the textbook author initially humanizes a time period that could be easily broken down into a simple time-line. The textbook should be in chronological order, however. After all, this is a history textbook; While it may be more interesting, humanizing each event would also be overwhelming. If I were to write a textbook, I would write all of the events chronologically and introduce influential leaders at the beginning of the chapter. Even though many things happened in this time period, it would take away from that importance of it all if each portion were separated into different chapters (Holocaust in a different chapter than World War II).

Personally, if I were to write a book to get people invested in history, I would take inspiration from the American Girl Doll series...embarrassingly enough. I read these when I was really young and I remember a lot of unique events in the book that related to the effects of the war on the people. It's a tween concept, but easily relateable and makes history reading fun! There probably wouldn't be enough historical facts embedded into the storyline to serve as textbook material, though.