Special Editor: Martin O. Heisler

A Volume of The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science
Volume 617, May, 2008

Foreword: Historical Remembrance in the Twenty-First Century
Jay Winter

Introduction: The Political Currency of the Past: History, Memory, and Identity
Martin O. Heisler

The Future of Memory
Richard Ned Lebow

The American Past Politicized: Uses and Misuses of History
Michael Kammen

Blank Spots in Collective Memory: A Case Study of Russia
James V. Wertsch

Using the Past in the Nazi Successor States from 1945 to the Present
Jenny Wüstenberg and David Art

Through a Glass Darkly: Consequences of a Politicized Past in Contemporary Turkey
Fatma Müge Göçek

The Japanese History Textbook Controversy in East Asian Perspective
Claudia Schneider

Disputes in Japan over the Japanese Military "Comfort Women" System and Its Perception in History
Hirofumi Hayashi

The Politics of History and Memory in Democratic Spain
Carolyn P. Boyd

Australia's History under Howard, 1996-2007
Andrew Bonnell and Martin Crotty

Democracy and Memory: Romania Confronts Its Communist Past
Vladimir Tismaneanu

Can Truth Be Negotiated? History Textbook Revision as a Means to Reconciliation
Falk Pingel

Challenged Histories and Collective Self-Concepts: Politics in History, Memory, and Time
Martin O. Heisler

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