Koselleck, a história dos conceitos e as temporalidades by Jose D\u2019Assunçao

“…This article aims to examine, in a historiographical view and according the perspective of the Theory of History some of the most important contributions of the german historian Reinhart Koselleck. On the one hand, we will seek to delineate the History of Concepts as a historical field particularly important in recent decades. …”
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Matière à controverse by Candice Raymond

“…The subject of this article is the 1980-2000 controversy between Adel Ismail, a Lebanese historian and diplomat who has published a vast collection of French diplomatic documents relating to the modern history of Lebanon, and Antoine Hokayem, an academic historian behind a virulent critique of these publications, himself also the publisher of archive collections. …”
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Adventures With Mommsen by Brian Croke

“… Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) has long been considered the greatest Roman historian of the nineteenth century. Above all he was an accomplished philo­logist, editor and scholarly organiser. …”
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William Robertson’s Unfinished History of America. The Foundation of the British Empire in North America and the Scottish Enlightenment by Florence Petroff

“…Historian and clergyman William Robertson never completed his history of British America. …”
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«Sincere friend of Siberia» V. I. Semevsky by S. V. Gavrilov, Yu. O. Kurenkova

“…The relationship between the historian and prominent representatives of the Siberian regionalism N. …”
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Variation sur l’autoreprésentation photographique féminine au tournant du siècle by Marie Cordié Levy

“…In order to understand what drove them on, we propose to study a series of self-portraits by three American photographers: Frances Benjamin Johnston, Ann Brigman and Imogen Cunningham, using the method developed by the historian Carlo Ginsburg and the historian of art Aloïs Riegl, which is akin to Bronislav Malinowski’s participative objectivation1.1. …”
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Med det förflutna för ögonen by Samuel Rubenson

“… At a retirement it is natural to have the past in front of you, in particular as a historian. But contrary to what we normally think – that we have the past behind us and the future in front of us – all of us in reality look at the future through the past. …”
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« Une constellation dans la nuit de l'histoire, une tache lumineuse devant les ténèbres de la mort » : l'œuvre d'Ernst Wilhelm Nay vue par Werner Haftmann by Vincenza Benedettino

“…Jahrhundert, published by Haftmann in 1954, and exhibitions catalogues, this study retraces the fundamental stages of the path to the consecration of Nay’s abstract painting undertaken by the art historian in Germany and internationally. On the one hand, Nay benefited considerably from the critical support of one of West Germany’s most influential art historians. …”
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Debating Toynbee's theory of challenge and response: Christian civilisation or Western imperialism? by F. Hale

“… In his 1952 Reith Lectures on the British Broadcasting Corporation, “The World and the West”, the eminent London historian Professor Arnold Toynbee sought to explain inter alia why western European hegemony over much of the world was widely resented. …”
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“The Founder and Father of his Empire”: Voltaire on the Peace of Nystad and the Imperial Status of Russia by S. A. Mezin

“…This point of view is shared by many contemporary historians. Peter I’s declaring Emperor was the direct consequence of victorious end of the Northern War. …”
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Home and family as a mirror of the country past: review of the book by D. I. Petin «The History of the Omsk clan of Batyushkin» by A. V. Antoshin

“…The analytical review is devoted to a new and conceptual microhistorical research — the monograph «The History of the Omsk clan of Batyushkin», published by the Omsk historian-archivist and local historian, PhD in History, Associate professor Dmitry Igorevich Petin. …”
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Pratiques historiennes croisées de la mémoire et expériences de l’histoire dans L’Invention du quotidien (1980) de Michel de Certeau et Le Passé d’une illusion (1995) de François F... by Daniel Poitras

“…By identifying two historians’ uses of “memory” and to what they relate, the author tries less to define an inventory or the contents of memory than to explore the current operations practiced by the historian in order to make the past “act” in the present of the contemporaries that he studies. …”
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Unknown publication about Francisk Skorina's works by Jevgenij Nemirovskij

“… Included are data about unknown book trade announcements from 1786 and a short article by historian and bibliographer L. I. Bacmeister, which first introduced a number of Francisk Skorina's publications into scientific practice. …”
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El límite imposible de un republicano cordobés, Antonio Jaén Morente (1879-1964) by Masaya Watanabe

“…Brief portrait of the historian and Republican Congressman Cordovan Antonio Jaén Morente, that the victory of Franco in 1939 forced, like many others, to take the path of exile.…”
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El Fondo Renée Lamberet conservado en el Institut Français d’Histoire Sociale de París by Gérard Brey

“…Evocation of the militant for Spanish anarchism and historian Renée Lamberet (1901-1980) and of the documentation she bequeathed to the Institut Français d'Histoire Sociale of Paris.…”
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The Making of History – or the Synergy Effect Between Contract Archaeology, the Conservation Institute and Museums by Vivian Smits

“…The choices made by the conservator during the conservation process are as important in the making of history as any decision made by the archaeologist, the museum curator, historian, etc. As part of my research project in GRASCA I am addressing the issue of how the practice of conservation can and should contribute to the stake-holders common goal of communicating the past.…”
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The Orthodox Church and «Russian Dissolve»: reflecting on lessons of the past (Review of the book Firsov S. L. «A Time for War and a Time for Peace». The Orthodox Russian Church an... by V. V. Kalinovsky, A. S. Puchenkov

“…The article characterizes one of the last works of the famous St. Petersburg historian S. L. Firsov, specialist in the field of Church history and church-state relations. …”
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Medio siglo investigando sobre los inicios del movimiento obrero en Galicia by Gérard Brey

“…This modest attempt at ego-history traces the journey of a student of Hispanic Studies who gradually became a historian of contemporary Spain as he researched Andalusian anarchism and the beginnings of the workers’ movement in Galicia. …”
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On the nature of civilization in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by Alfredas Bumblauskas

“… The article by the medievalist historian presents a critical review of the reports on the nature of civilization in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Polish, Russian, German, and Lithuanian historiography based on the definition of civilization by the Polish theorist of history, Feliks Koneczny ("Civilization is a method of arranging communal life"), and proves that this civilization was neither Western-Latin nor Eastern-Byzantine, but, rather, quite an independent one, with its own necessary minimum of European values.   …”
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Mary McLeod in conversation with Salomon Frausto and Leá-Catherine Szacka by Mary McLeod

“… In February 1989, architectural historian and theorist Mary McLeod published her now seminal essay entitled ‘Architecture and Politics in the Reagan Era: From Postmodernism to Deconstructivism’ in Assemblage 8. …”
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