Sponsored by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Terrie Epstein (USA) and Carla Peck (Canada) have organised a special conference on "Teaching and Learning Difficult Histories: Global Concepts and Contexts". Maria Grever has been invited to participate in this conference. She presents the paper Teaching the War! Reflections on Popular Uses of Difficult Heritage and she will comment on another session "Teachers and teaching Difficult Histories". Other participants are Peter Seixas, Tsafrir Golberg, Allan McCully, Sirrka Ahonen and others.