
Adam Schmitt, Associate Professor of Teacher Education and History, recently published a chapter, History and Memory at Les Lieux de Memoire: The Commemoration of the Haymarket Affair in Teaching Labor History in the United States, 1850-2020 from Peter Lang Publishing. Dr. Schmitt uses the commemoration of the Haymarket Affair to explore the intersection of collective memory and history and consider larger questions inherent in what happens in the history classroom, specifically in how elements of one’s identity, internal sense-making, and the constructed nature of history play a role in how history is understood and remembered
