In high school, I loved American History and all my English classes, especially 11th Grade. My English teacher that year, Mrs. Anderson, was great. And my classmates were fun.
In college, it was also history, but this time, it was British History. I also loved my American History classes too. I should have been a History major instead of an English major! And I took a class in Jane Austen--great stuff. First English lit class where I can say I read every word. No cheating. And this was in 1982, before the Jane Austen craze of a few years ago.