Elizabeth Cole is Assistant Director, TeachAsia, in the Education Division of Asia Society in New York City. She was Senior Program Officer at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs from 2000-2005.

Can high school history texts "facilitate nonviolent coexistence among people divided by the memory of pain and death"? These case studies from ten countries are rich in hopeful, cautious, mixed answers. High school history teachers should take courage from this book, for theirs is a mission not often publicly celebrated: their part in the healing of the wounds in our body politic. No country should boast that it has no such wounds.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: History Education and Sociopolitical ReconciliationPart 2 Part I: As Generations Pass: The Challenges of Long-Term Reconciliation in History TextbooksChapter 3 Chapter One: The Trajectory of Reconciliation through History Education in Post-Unification GermanyChapter 4 Chapter Two: Teaching the Pacific War in Japanese Secondary SchoolsChapter 5 Chapter Three: Canadian History Textbooks and the Portrayal of Canada's First NationsPart 6 Part II: Reconciliation in ProcessChapter 7 Chapter Four: History Teaching and Reconciliation in Northern IrelandChapter 8 Chapter Five: The Civil War and Franco Dictatorship in Spanish Secondary School History TextbooksChapter 9 Chapter Six: Education and the Politics of History in Guatemala: Integrating "Memory of Silence" into the Curriculum?Part 10 Part III: Reconciliation Jeopardized, Undone or Not Yet Attained: Aspirational and Counter-Reconciliatory CasesChapter 11 Chapter Seven: Secondary School History Texts: the Case of RussiaChapter 12 Chapter Eight: From Confrontation to Cooperation in the Two Koreas: The Role of History Education in Promoting ReconciliationChapter 13 Chapter Nine: History Education and Reconciliation Issues In Contemporary India and PakistanChapter 14 Afterword

Elizabeth Cole is Assistant Director, TeachAsia, in the Education Division of Asia Society in New York City. She was Senior Program Officer at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs from 2000-2005.

Can high school history texts "facilitate nonviolent coexistence among people divided by the memory of pain and death"? These case studies from ten countries are rich in hopeful, cautious, mixed answers. High school history teachers should take courage from this book, for theirs is a mission not often publicly celebrated: their part in the healing of the wounds in our body politic. No country should boast that it has no such wounds.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: History Education and Sociopolitical ReconciliationPart 2 Part I: As Generations Pass: The Challenges of Long-Term Reconciliation in History TextbooksChapter 3 Chapter One: The Trajectory of Reconciliation through History Education in Post-Unification GermanyChapter 4 Chapter Two: Teaching the Pacific War in Japanese Secondary SchoolsChapter 5 Chapter Three: Canadian History Textbooks and the Portrayal of Canada's First NationsPart 6 Part II: Reconciliation in ProcessChapter 7 Chapter Four: History Teaching and Reconciliation in Northern IrelandChapter 8 Chapter Five: The Civil War and Franco Dictatorship in Spanish Secondary School History TextbooksChapter 9 Chapter Six: Education and the Politics of History in Guatemala: Integrating "Memory of Silence" into the Curriculum?Part 10 Part III: Reconciliation Jeopardized, Undone or Not Yet Attained: Aspirational and Counter-Reconciliatory CasesChapter 11 Chapter Seven: Secondary School History Texts: the Case of RussiaChapter 12 Chapter Eight: From Confrontation to Cooperation in the Two Koreas: The Role of History Education in Promoting ReconciliationChapter 13 Chapter Nine: History Education and Reconciliation Issues In Contemporary India and PakistanChapter 14 Afterword

Elizabeth Cole is Assistant Director, TeachAsia, in the Education Division of Asia Society in New York City. She was Senior Program Officer at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs from 2000-2005.

Can high school history texts "facilitate nonviolent coexistence among people divided by the memory of pain and death"? These case studies from ten countries are rich in hopeful, cautious, mixed answers. High school history teachers should take courage from this book, for theirs is a mission not often publicly celebrated: their part in the healing of the wounds in our body politic. No country should boast that it has no such wounds.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: History Education and Sociopolitical ReconciliationPart 2 Part I: As Generations Pass: The Challenges of Long-Term Reconciliation in History TextbooksChapter 3 Chapter One: The Trajectory of Reconciliation through History Education in Post-Unification GermanyChapter 4 Chapter Two: Teaching the Pacific War in Japanese Secondary SchoolsChapter 5 Chapter Three: Canadian History Textbooks and the Portrayal of Canada's First NationsPart 6 Part II: Reconciliation in ProcessChapter 7 Chapter Four: History Teaching and Reconciliation in Northern IrelandChapter 8 Chapter Five: The Civil War and Franco Dictatorship in Spanish Secondary School History TextbooksChapter 9 Chapter Six: Education and the Politics of History in Guatemala: Integrating "Memory of Silence" into the Curriculum?Part 10 Part III: Reconciliation Jeopardized, Undone or Not Yet Attained: Aspirational and Counter-Reconciliatory CasesChapter 11 Chapter Seven: Secondary School History Texts: the Case of RussiaChapter 12 Chapter Eight: From Confrontation to Cooperation in the Two Koreas: The Role of History Education in Promoting ReconciliationChapter 13 Chapter Nine: History Education and Reconciliation Issues In Contemporary India and PakistanChapter 14 Afterword