Piers anthony has a series called geoddysey that teaches history in the story. It kinda has a hard to explain gimmick. The story is cohesive but each chapter jumps in time. So it starts in the stone age and ends in the future but along the way goes through some significant eras of humanity. From the characters perspective though everything in the story happened to them in the era they are in. So its like your watching reincarnations of lives where the events of their lives reapeat.