I have always been a sucker for a great story! And history to me has always been more than just words on a slick, white textbook page. Those books were chronicles of lives. Real lives of real people whose legacies survived time for one reason or another. Some good, some bad. In fact, I would argue that history is one of the most poorly taught subjects in school. It is typically dry and nothing more than a memorization and regurgitation of dates. But for me, a self-professed history nerd, I love being places where I can walk in the footsteps of founding fathers or suffragette mothers. I love to feel…