Foreword
Simone Schweber
Introduction
Magdalena H. Gross and Luke Terra
Part I Theorizing the teaching and learning of difficult histories
- Teaching difficult histories: The need for a dynamic research tradition
Keith Barton
- Contextual Gatekeeping: Teacher decision-making in multiple and overlapping milieus
Thomas Misco
- Sublime Understanding: Cultivating the Emotional Past
Cam Scribner
Part II Teaching difficult histories
4. An Inquiry-Based Curriculum Design for Difficult History
Bradley Fogo and Joel Breakstone
- Ethical Judgments about the Difficult Past: Observations from the Classroom
Lindsay Gibson
- When Past and Present Collide: Dilemmas in Teaching the History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Sivan Zakai
- Warts, Polyps, Blisters and All? Problems in Learning to Teach a Provocative Past in a Troubling Way
Bruce VanSledright and Sebastian Burkholdt
- Güeras, Indigenas, y Negros: A Framework for Teaching Mexican American Racial/Ethnic Histories
Maribel Santiago
- Betrayal, Conversion, and Complicity in the Middle East Classroom
Taymiya R. Zaman
Part III Learning difficult histories
- Soft or Hard Biculturalism and Beyond: How New Zealand Adolescents Construct Contemporary Significance of the Nation’s Founding Document
Terrie Epstein and Michael Harcourt
- History Education, National Identity, and the Road to Brexit
Eleni Karayianni and Stuart Foster
- "I need to hear a good ending":How students cope with historical violence.
Jeremy Jimenez
- The Myth of "Black Confederates": Beliefs of Students and Implications for History Educators
Gabriel A. Reich and Amy Corning
- "We’ve Been Screwed": French Québecers and Their Past
Jocelyn Létourneau
- Student Motivation to Confront Difficult Local History
Rob Lucas
- Learning History Through Culture: The Krakow Jewish Festival
Ari Y. Kelman
- "Still Racist, Just Less Outward About It:" Secondary Students Narrate Connections Between Slavery and Racism
Justine Lee
- Sweetening the Past: Selling Heritage at Knott’s Berry Farm
Harper Keenan
Afterword
Sam Wineburg
Appendices