History textbook controversies abound, really. Just a list to pull some sources together:
- European history generally, under the EU (from Eurozine)
- Europe, Spanish Civil War
- Europe, how to remember totalitarian governments
- Israel, Israeli Arabic text calls 1948 war “catastrophe” for Palestinians (New York Times)
- Taiwan, what is “national,” what is Chinese?
- Japan and Korea, in 2005
- List of Japan’s textbook controversies from Wikipedia, including most recent issue over mass suicides on Okinawa; a more academic treatment from Charles Cummins at the Washington University of St. Louis
- Controversy in China, 2004; and a biased view in 2007
- Past controversy over Chinese university texts
- For the sake of history, a recounting of the 1947-1948 controversy at the University of Wyoming
- California controversy resolved, over treatment of Hinduism
- Romania, in 1999
- Mexico in 2003, over the 1968 political violence
Posted by Ed Darrell 





