Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: reconciliation and history education / Elizabeth A. Cole -- As generations pass: the challenges of long-term reconciliation in history textbooks -- The trajectory of reconciliation through history education in postunification Germany / Julian Dierkes -- Advancing or obstructing reconciliation? Changes in history education and disputes over history textbooks in Japan / Takashi Yoshida -- Representations of aboriginal people in English Canadian history textbooks: toward reconcilation / Penney Clark -- Reconciliation in process -- History teaching and reconciliation in Northern Ireland / Alison Kitson -- The Spanish civil war and Franco dictatorship: the challenges of representing a conflictive past in secondary schools / Rafael Valls -- Historical memory and the limits of peace education: examining Guatemala's memory of silence and the politics of curriculum design / Elizabeth Oglesby -- Reconciliation jeopardized, undone or not yet attained: aspirational and counter-reconciliatory cases -- History and myth in the Soviet Empire and the Russian Republic / Thomas Sherlock -- On the use and abuse of of Korea's past : an inquiry into history teaching and reconciliation / Roland Bleiker -- The role of history textbooks in shaping collective identities in India and Pakistan / Thomas Sherlock and Jon Dorschner -- Afterward / Audrey Chapman -- Contributors.