I studied the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions as a junior in High School, in the early 1970's. It was not a class-wide assignment, rather it was a research project assigned to me by by history teacher. I went from not particularly caring about history, to being enthralled by it, literally overnight.
I think they like it when the students don’t care about their history. Ignorant, fat, immoral, and lazy: the tyrants dream subject.