Tony, Taylor; Guyver, Robert, ed. History Wars and the Classroom: Global Perspectives. Information Age Publishing, 2011.

Summary
This collection of essays examines the “History Wars” in different national contexts (six). These constitute the “politicized controversies that frequently surround societal imaginings and 'depictions of national, cultural, racial, ethnic, tribal and religious pasts'.” (xii) At the core of these essays is an examination of the tensions that have played out between political intent and educational practice in history education, exposing a range of problems, each tied to specific national circumstances such as history textbooks in Japan, students’ Holocaust overload in Germany, and curriculum on Maori-Pakeha relations in New Zealand. At the same time, there is some commonality across national spaces, including tensions between the history discipline and social studies, political influence, and how history should be taught (national vs. process vs. multi-perspective).

See Also: Jonathan Zimmerman, John Rudolph, Adam Shapiro, Herbert Kliebard