By Dolan SamantaI have been teaching young adults for the last three years, and there have been moments when I have looked at my students and wondered where we are headed. In a history classroom, we ask students to think about people who lived through moments of upheaval. Yet there is a strange danger in teaching history: The past can become so distant that students treat it as though it belongs exclusively to other people. But the purpose of teaching these histories, at least as I understand it, is not to know what happened. Then my students went out into the world and showed me that perhaps I had not been asking enough.