Starting on my high school career, history had to have been one of the most enjoyable subjects! I had a blast learning about the industrial revolution, all the way through the Great Depression, sounds fun right? Well, it was. But to pick two subjects out of the bunch, I would have to say WWI and the 1920’s will stick out the most. To start, the trench warfare and the gritty details we got to view in Max Brooks’s The Harlem Hellfighters, will probably stick with me for a lifetime. It was absolutely inspiring to view America’s soldiers fight in a time of oppression and it gave me a way to experience the time similar to how it was: tough and gory. Especially the trench warfare, from trench foot to shell shock, their harsh conditions and fighting
