THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY: CLIO BEHIND ICTY BARS by Miloš Ković, Draga Mastilović

“… The task of this article is to examine the academic value and factual reliability of the reports Background, Politics, and Strategy of the Sarajevo Siege, 1991-1995 and Highlights of Deliberations in the Assembly of Republika Srpska Relevant to the Indictment of Ratko MLADIC, 1991- 96, produced by historian Robert J. Donia, for the purposes of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. …”
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La nuit entre histoire et littérature by Alain Cabantous

“…Even if sources of this kind present the historian with methodological problems, the use of this documentation cannot be neglected when trying to understand the nocturnal, given that theatre, poetry and inexpensive books have spread and given root to a repellent and crime-generating representation of nocturnal time generally associated with violence of all kinds, with fear, and with death. …”
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COUNTERFACTUALS IN HISTORIOGRAPHY by Zenonas Norkus

“…The conviction of some historians that the counterfactuals are essentially forbidden in the scientific historiography is critised on the ground that counterfactuals are implied by the causal statements and statements of the relative causal importance. …”
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Problems of book carrying in the works of Vaclovas Biržiška by Bronius Raguotis

“… The well-known bibliographer and historian of press Vadovas Biržiška (1884-1956) has addressed the problems of books' and periodicals' distribution and their functioning in many of his works. …”
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TARİH BİLİMİNDE FELSEFİ BİR SORGULAMANIN ÖNEMİ ÜZERİNE by Kubilay Aysevener

“…The historian has no alternative but to accept their philosophical thinking about human life which a necessary requirement for historical understanding of man.…”
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Exposer la science dans l’après-guerre. Hommage à Léonard de Vinci et Rembrandt, étude photographique et radiographique au laboratoire du musée du Louvre by Camille Bourdiel

“…With the exhibitions Hommages à Léonard de Vinci (1952) and Rembrandt, étude photographique et radiographique (1955), she made a new type of document with a didactic aim for viewing by the public and thus contributed to making her department an indispensable tool for the art historian, while ensuring the renown of the Laboratoire du Musée du Louvre in France and abroad.…”
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Shigemori Mirei : un regard créatif sur l’art des jardins by Murielle Hladik

“…As a landscape designer as well as a garden historian, Shigemori Mirei (1896-1975) played a major part in the new creation and reinvention of the Japanese gardens design, at the dawn of the twentieth century. …”
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Józef Białynia-Chołodecki (1852–1934) – badacz i popularyzator historii powstania styczniowego by Damian Kozłowski

“… Józef Białynia-Chołodecki was a publicist, social worker, historian and one of the most active non-professional researchers of the post-partition history of Poland at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and the interwar period. …”
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Ancient Art in the Collection of the National Museum in Gdańsk by Grzegorz First

“…The only definite aspect is the acquisition of some items: Coptic fabrics from the collection of Robert Forrer—a Swiss collector, antiquarian, archaeologist, and art historian. The remaining artifacts stored in Gdańsk have not been thoroughly studied; they do not form a homogeneous collection, and it cannot be ruled out that they may also be remnants of former bourgeois collections dating back to the 16th century or German collections acquired in Gdańsk after World War II. …”
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L’alliance normando-tupi au xvie siècle : la célébration de Rouen by Beatriz Perrone-Moisés

“…The Norman-Tupi alliance in the 16th century: the celebration at Rouen.In 1550, the city of Rouen prepares a series of festivities for the royal entry of Henry II and his court, of which two elements point to the links between the Norman harbour merchants and the Brazilian coastal Tupi: a performance of the Indians’ daily life – called « Brazilian festival » by the historian Ferdinand Denis, involving 50 Tupi and 250 Norman sailors – and a staged naval battle between French and Portuguese. …”
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État(s) des lieux : espaces et topographies dans la collection Gaignières by Damien Bril

“…To do so, we will first recall the nature of Gaignières’ project and the role played by topographical data in structuring his collection ; then we will look at the scientific and methodological means used to achieve it ; and, finally, we will examine the practices surrounding the constitution of the collection, and the questions that they may raise for the contemporary historian.…”
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Historical reality and „understanding" the hermeneutical approach by Kęstutis Dubnikas

“…The historian is necessarily a historical being himself; he/she is deeply rooted in a concrete historical context. …”
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Fiabilité et fidélité : les logiques humaines et matérielles à l’œuvre dans les agences d’architecture de Pierre Dufau (1908-1985) by Hugo Massire

“…This article proposes to study the structuring of the agency into a company offering products to its customers, and to draw a parallel with its historiographical construction, fed as much by journalistic criticism and historian expertise as by Pierre Dufau himself through the writing of his memoirs.…”
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The concepts of Ludwik Fleck and their application to the eukaryotic cell cycle by Stephen Cooper

“… The concepts of Ludwik Fleck (1896–1961), a microbiologist, historian, and philosopher of medicine, can be used to analyze the conservative nature of scientific ideas. …”
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Le musée de Sculpture comparée au prisme de la collection de cartes postales éditées par les frères Neurdein (1904-1915) by Dominique Jarrassé, Emmanuelle Polack

“…Beyond the patrimonialisation of this exceptional collection, the article focuses on the first series of 486 cards organised chronologically and proposes an analysis of the intrusion of this medium, during its “golden age”, into the art historian’s studio.…”
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Lujanbio abizenaren historiarako zenbait datu by Oihana Lujanbio

“… Lanaren helburua Lujanbio abizenaren historian arakatzea da. Horretarako, EAEko Erregistro Sakramentalen artxibo elektronikoak baliatu dira, batez ere. …”
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PYOTR BITSILLI IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL “CONVERSATION” OF RUSSIA ABROAD by D. V. RATUSHINA

“…The key theme of the paper is the heritage and ideas of Pyotr Mikhailovich Bitsilli (1879–1953) – historian, philosopher, literary critic. His style of thinking, special historical method of penetrating into investigated reality have not lost their relevance until today. …”
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“RAIN was planting the seeds”: An Interview with Tom Bender, co-editor of RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology by Meredith Gaglio

“…This article is an abridged transcript of an interview conducted by architectural historian, Meredith Gaglio, with one of RAIN’s co-editors, the late Tom Bender, at his home in Manzanita, Oregon, in April, 2016. …”
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Gender Revolution in a Malthusian Utopia: Harriet Martineau’s world of Garveloch by Catherine Heyrendt-Sherman

“…Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), sociologist, historian and novelist, was also a talented populariser. …”
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Sobre a recepção de O Antigo Regime e a Revolução pela historiografia da Revolução Francesa: da publicação da obra ao contexto do Bicentenário de 1789 by José Miguel Nanni Soares

“…The purpose of this paper is to offer an overview –although summary– of The Old Regime and the Revolution by the historiography of the French Revolution, from its publication to the context of the Bicentennial celebration (1789-1989).Among other aspects, it was demonstrated how, in spite of relevant and favorable opinions from eminent historians and literary critics, the famous Tocqueville work faced serious editorial and ideological challenges in the period between June 1856 and the first centenary of its appearance.In the wake of the postwar changes of the 1950s and, to a large extent, due to the important contributions of the eminent republican and socialist historian Georges Lefebvre, Tocqueville’s historical work began to attract a growing consideration of academic historians and the general public, becoming a pivotal author in both historiography and contemporary political debate during and after the celebration of the Bicentenary of the Revolution of 1789.…”
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