https://eterna.unibas.ch/htce <p><em>Historical Thinking, Culture, and Education</em> is a peer-reviewed, open-access, scholarly journal that offers a critical space for the reflection and exchange of ideas on the creation, appropriation, and dissemination of historical knowledge and culture in both formal and non-formal educational settings. Seeking to enhance scholarly debates from both the scientific mainstream and beyond to support the accessibility and visibility of a variety of approaches, the journal seeks to particularly foster a transnational and cross-cultural dialogue as well as an interdisciplinary understanding between academics, scholarly traditions, ontologies, and epistemologies from diverse geographies and contexts. Connecting different domains of knowledge, the journal addresses theoretical and empirical questions, while also showcasing innovative methods that seek to generate new scholarly understandings, with the aim of creating a global community of academics who are mutually concerned with the promotion of sound scholarly work.</p> University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Center for Citizenship Education and History Didactics en-US Historical Thinking, Culture, and Education 3042-478X https://eterna.unibas.ch/htce/article/view/1396 <p>To hope is an integral part of being a human (Webb, 2012). Several educators have suggested that hope should play a crucial role in education to empower young people to shape their own futures and build resilience (hooks, 2003; Freire, 1994; Jacops, 2005; Vlieghe, 2019; de Winter, 2024). I propose that history can and should offer inspiring examples to provide hope for the future, but teaching "hopeful histories" presents both historiographical and ideological challenges. With this miniature I want to start a broader discussion by exploring the question: Is there a place for hope in history education?</p> Bjorn Wansink Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ 2025-04-15 2025-04-15 2 1 10.12685/htce.1396