The Joint History Books are a unique collection of historical sources from all the countries, compiled for students and history teachers. Their main goal is to show that every story has multiple points of view, supporting critical thinking and developing an understanding of how history is made. The books include everything from the political face of dictatorship and repression to the crises of the 70s' and 80s’, and the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
Hundreds of historians and teachers from the SEE had been engaged from 1998 to 2016 in producing these six workbooks – four of which have been published in 11 languages and span the period from the Ottoman Empire to the end of World War II. The second two books cover the Cold War and the Transition in Europe, including the wars of the 1990s, to 2008, and have been published in four languages.
These books are meant to be used and are produced in collaboration with historians and teachers from all the corners of SEE: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia and Turkey.
Here you can download the books in 9 languages.
Read more about this project: https://www.jointhistory.net/index-eng.html
Learn more about the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe (CDRSEE)
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