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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A tireless scholar: V.I. Semevsky's work at the Department for Self-Education Promotion by S.V. Gavrilov

“…The relevance of this study is determined by the absence of works on the activity of this historian-narodnik as a popularizer of historical knowledge in modern Russian historiography. …”
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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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History, Hagiography and Religious Works: The Writings of William of Malmesbury and his Date of Birth by Ming Liu

“…By reconsidering the two dominating opinions about his date of birth, this paper argues that William of Malmesbury, the famous Anglo-Norman historian, was born in c. 1091, probably late that year. …”
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Bartolomé Bennassar y la historia moderna de España by Carlos Martínez Shaw

“…In the frame of an homage to the great historian and hispanist Bartolomé Bennassar, are analyzed his main productions in the field of Spanish an American Early Modern History (and first of all his masterpiece Valladolid el ses campagnes au Siècle d’Or published in 1967). …”
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SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS OF NATIONAL HISTORY AS AN INSTRUMENT OF THE MEMORY POLICY OF THE SOVIET STATE by Isabella S. Ogonovskaya

“…The source base of the research is school history textbooks published in Soviet Russia and the USSR in 1917-1989, curricula, the diary of the historian S.A. Piontkovsky, memoirs of the author of the history textbook of the USSR V.D. …”
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IN THE WAKE OF PUGACHEV’S REBELLION: EXPERIENCE IN ORAL HISTORY by N. V. Shevtsov

“…Pugachev's Rebellion is a subject of numerous works of Russian historians, writers, articles, research journalists and ethnographers. …”
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A geografia na formação do território francês: capítulos braudelianos de história do pensamento geográfico by Guilherme Ribeiro

“…This article analyzes the dialogue of the French historian Fernand Braudel with geography in his last book L'Identité de la France. …”
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Le « paysage de l’historien » : entre sources et méthodes by Marie Delcourte

“…This article attempts to explain how an historian considers the landscape (concepts, tools and methods) through the example of the dynamics of the woodlands in the Avesnois region in the North of France.…”
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L’architecte, l’image et le mot : Le Corbusier dans Cahiers d’art (1926-1933) by Léa Baudat

“…From 1926 to 1933, Cahiers d’Art, the eclectic magazine edited by Christian Zervos, prominently featured – thanks to the support of the editor and of the architecture columnist, historian Siegfried Giedion – Le Corbusier. The study of this specific case demonstrates how Le Corbusier, beyond his work as a builder, was fully involved in the media of his age. …”
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Doc. PaedDr. Jiřina Holinková, CSc. Historička a univerzitní pedagožka nejen pohledem pamětníků by Michaela Kollerová

“…Jiřina Holinková, CSc. (1921–2005), a historian, who worked for more than fourty years at the Department of History at the Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc. …”
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La marcia degli alfabeti. Indagine semiologica degli Slavs and Tatars by Davide Tolfo

“…Expanding on the categorization proposed by art historian David Joselit, it will examine how the collective privileges propositions, documents, and ready-mades as central forms of their operations. …”
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A serpente, espelho de Eva by Hilário Franco Júnior

“…In the thirteenth-fifteenth centuries an innovation would have great success: the serpent that induces Eve to sin has often been figured with feminine features. As for the historian there should be no unexplored facts, as irrelevant as they may seen at first glance, this article is an attempt to explain the purpose of those images. …”
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Immigrant Gambling in Finland by Perpetual Crentsil

“… An anthropological study of gambling among immigrant groups in Finland can reveal much about how the society organizes its way of life in categories  elevant for the economist, sociologist, political scientist and the historian. Anthropological studies of other aspects of immigrants’ lives—remittance giving, socio-economic status, and development issues in origin countries—usually present immigrants as ethnographic subjects. …”
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Saying the Impossible, Imagining Change. Bronislaw Baczko and the History of «Utopian Discourse» by Luca Scuccimarra

“…This paper aims precisely at delving into this specific aspect of the Polish historian’s work, dwelling in particular on the contribution that his view of the history of modern “utopian discourse” offered to a deeper and more conscious understanding of the conflicting events of European modernization.…”
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