As Sweden has moved from being a homogeneous country to a multicultural melting pot of various nationalities so has the need for history teachers to understand how to raise various historical issues in a way without unnecessarily offending or aggravating while still doing their duty of educating and fostering the next generation on Swedish citizens. Therefore, this research overview of the topic “sensitive and controversial issues in history teaching” (SCIs) has been done as an attempt to bridge knowledge gaps and create more understanding for how to educate on SCIs by gathering information from nations where the issues have already been well documented. Consequently, this study attempts to showcase different SCIs in different nations as well as showcasing how teachers from each nation either try teaching said issues or ignore it. The conclusion is that teachers in general do not shy away from teaching controversial subjects and that a controversial subject is a subject that still holds an emotional connection to a student or a teacher.