DS15 started last week, and right off the bat he had either a problem or a blessing. A scheduling snafu had him making some choices, and he is out of his AP history course. This is probably ok, because he doesn't like studying history at all...
Your son's mileage may vary, but my personal journey of how I learned to stop worrying and love history began at APUSH. It was the first course in history that I encountered that actually taught it the way it was meant to be taught: stories, with details, that actually connect to each other, characters with human qualities rather than ridiculous archetypes, etc. Before that class, I hated history. Now, I'm a STEM employee with a half-finished hardback of
The History of Western Philosophy by my right elbow, and
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller opened in an adjacent browser tab.
