Agreed. I tried to tell mine to look at history as more of a soap opera rather than stuffy old dead people and the memorization of dates like so many of their textbooks present it. They, of course, rolled their eyes. So many can’t relate that Adams, Washington and Lincoln were real people.
My late father was a major history lover, and he showed me the same thing (his favorite time period was the Civil War). My oldest (almost 13) does show an interest in history above most kids’ and does quite well in it in school, but her favorite subject is science. Takes after her dad the engineer, LOL.