The key to history is who tells the story. I have had crushes on my history teachers before but this one truly has won my heart.
To sharpen his lesson plan, he went on the road to the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Southern California; Loyola; and California State, where he offered students pizza to listen to his riffs.
Mr. Wuhl's college tour built what was supposed to be a 10-minute presentation to HBO. He got the green light for a pilot then turned it into a half-hour routine with enough pop-culture references to please Stephen King; simple, Pythonesque slide animation; and guest lecturers on tape (the social critic Sarah Vowell and the MSNBC commentator Tucker Carlson among them).
Wuhl debunks the popular idea of history giving a classroom of undergrad the greatest education of their young live.
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