It seems like a good core history class in grade school would be a class dedicated to following a single direct bloodline from ancient times to this very day. My family, for example, has kept extremely detailed records of our ancestry since 410 C.E., and my grandma finally sat me down yesterday and told me our family’s story ancestor by ancestor. By the end, I had heard the tales of fishermen from the Near East, a horseman from ancient Sweden, a scribe from Moscow, a billionaire from the United States (and several Hollywood actors thereafter), etc. etc. I felt like history finally made sense to me, seeing it through the eyes of successive generations. I feel like everyone would benefit from learning human history this way. Obviously such a class would be in addition to traditional history classes, but this would be more of a “how-to-approach-history” type of course. Why doesn’t this exist?