In this article, the author shares how he was able to change the negative attitude of his students towards their United States history class. The first section of this article outlines the changes the author made to the history curriculum in his class; the second section outlines the effects of those changes; and the third section explains why his class worked, based on ethnographic research conducted with some of the students from his class about three months after they graduated from high school. The author argues that he got his students to not hate history by throwing out two basic assumptions of history teaching: that history should be taught chronologically and that history should focus on particular groups and people. The author offers an alternative method for teaching United States history that does not make these assumptions. (Contains 1 table and 22 endnotes.)