In her keynote address at the History for Peace conference in 2015 Barbara Christophe from the Georg Eckert Institute said ‘(history) textbooks are probably among the most selective media we have.’ The textbook selects, omits, simplifies and gives shape to the past. Sometimes, those choices are influenced not only by the demands of the classroom, but also by politics, ideology and ideas about what should be remembered. This module looks at the textbook differently. Rather than accepting its...