"The purpose of this book is to amplify the stories of practitioners who have critically examined and reflected on their successes and challenges when planning and/or teaching histories that they have identified as difficult. Representing a wide range of educational contexts in the United States and in other countries, - practitioners' (K-12 teachers and museum educators) voices and classrooms are at the center of each chapter. These stories provide readers with rare examples of how teachers plan for, teach, and reflect on difficult histories"-- Provided by publisher.

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Introduction : framing difficult histories / Lauren McArthur Harris, Maia Sheppard, and Sara Levy -- Representing difficult history through images and narratives with museum partners : learning and teaching at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum / Rebecca L. Rosen, Kevin W. Meuwissen, Megan C. Jones, and Jennifer M. Lagasse -- Rethinking the teaching of Black history : teachers, students, and the development of a Black history and literature course using a Black historical consciousness framework / Gregory Simmons, LaGarrett J. King, and Mary Adu-Gyamfi -- Teaching about the Nanjing safety zone to introduce human rights / Jing A. Williams, Christian D. Pirlet, and Mary Johnson -- "Step by courageous step" : a preservice teacher's understanding of the story of Ona Judge / Amanda E. Vickery, Shalicia Hobby, and Marquita Foster -- Pacific learners, identity, and difficult histories : a New Zealand case study / Bronwyn Houliston -- Perpetual war as difficult history : teaching against militarism and for peace / Scott T. Glew -- Teaching the Holocaust : a search for its redemptive value / Doran Katz -- From praying towns to the national day of mourning : centering indigenous peoples' survivance and resistance within American history / Taylor Collins and Christopher C. Martell -- "When people stay silent, it looks like Newberry is the only one with this problem" : confronting the difficult history of racial violence in an African American history course / Elizabeth Yeager Washington, Catherine G. Atria, Jordan Marlowe, and Christina Aulino -- Comparing historical injustices : the possibilities and challenges of teaching multiple injustices from an anticolonial perspective / James Miles and Rosie Thind -- The paradoxical qualities of teaching difficult history / Tyler Moon and H James (Jim) Garrett -- "The 13th Amendment, it don't say that we kings" : teaching the history of mass incarceration and criminal justice reform through hip-hop pedagogy / Kelly R. Allen -- Teaching difficult histories of immigration at the elementary / Tara Rich and Sohyun An -- "If you're not talking about those things, you're not talking about history" : interrogating and discussing secondary sources / Lance Weisend, Colleen Fitzpatrick, and Stephanie van Hover -- "These are human beings we're talking about" : 9th graders think and write about the Middle Passage / Jennifer Hauver, Victoria Lisle, and Ga-Min Lee.