Introduction: New history? / Africa: Whose history? Whose memory? / Genes, ancestry and history / African literature and history in the classroom / The truth & reconciliation commission as contemporary history / The landscape of imperialism: lessons from imperial history / Histories of South African popular music / Doing history : theory, practice and pedagogy / Heritage and African history / Potent spaces, story places: teaching history through museums / History teaching and the apartheid Museum / Conversationns from and for 'communities': working with oral history / The South African history project / The history curriculum in the (revised) national curriculum statement: an introduction / Textbooks in classroom: challenges and possibilities / Some trends in South African academic history: changing contexts and challenges