Langage égalitaire : vers une rationalisation des procédés et des approches by Éliane Viennot

“…Based on a history of language and women, historian Éliane Viennot studied the process of masculinization of the French language with the institution of the French Academy in the 19th century. …”
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Archéologies maghrébines et relectures de l’histoire. Autour de la patrimonialisation de Paul-Albert Février by Clémentine Gutron

“…By analysing the professional path and work of the learned archaeologist and historian of late antiquity with the numerous political and academic reappropriations of his work by contemporary authors, this paper analyzes the question of history, its relationship to the past, its uses and the «need for history» in the Maghreb. …”
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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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Les enfermements d’un vagabond criminel. Vacher, tueur de bergers by Marc Renneville

“…In conclusion, we will point out the difficulty of accessing the subjectivity of our objects of study because this approach implies, for the historian, a return to oneself and a deconstruction of transmitted memories.…”
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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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Faire du terrain dans l’Égypte révolutionnaire by Lise Debout, Gaëtan Du Roy, Clément Steuer

“…This article offers a reflection of three young researchers – an urbanist, an historian and a political scientist – on the impact of the Egyptian revolution in carrying out their fieldwork research. …”
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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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Le goût de l´Espagne. Opinión y “cosas” de una España imaginada desde y con Bartolomé Bennassar by Fernando Bouza

“…A cultural history approach to late French historian Bartolomé Bennassar´s work is launched analyzing some titles in which he highlighted art and artists as a way to combine serial history with case studies. …”
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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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Invisible Labour in the Woodwardian Collection by Joshua Hillman

“… As is widely known, the ‘Woodwardian Collection’ at the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, holds the nearly 10,000 rock, mineral, and fossil specimens collected by the eccentric English natural historian John Woodward between 1688 and 1728. Less widely appreciated, however, is the extent to which Woodward’s collection depended on the ‘invisible labour’ of mineworkers, gem cutters, and other labourers. …”
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Le spectre communiste, un fantôme dans la maison européenne by Bertrand Vayssière

“…Hence a dialectical relationship between these two mental constructions, if only because of their simultaneous emergence in political debates, which lead historian Tony Judt to say that "the opposite of Communism was not capitalism but Europe".…”
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Trans-archive. Magnus Hirschfeld et l’atlas visuel des sexualités de l’entre-deux-guerres by Damien Delille

“…The Institute of Sexology in Berlin, created in 1919, which served as a location for the collection and archival preservation of this queer archeology of non-normative identities, was also inspired by a monistic conception of science and the visual, which Hirschfeld shared with art historian Aby Warburg. Art thus plays a central role in the construction of trans-archives, conceived as an expression of subjectivities, in the process of sexual emancipation, and as a place of performative knowledge of gender identities.…”
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Eyes of identification: challenges and opportunities in leveraging highly visible, multiple-level histories by Debra Rosser, Shurlee Swain

“…These projects challenge historians on two main fronts: They defy historians' 'scholarly distance' and require them to embrace alternative, often competing and personally confronting, histories as they seek to incorporate care leavers' voices in published history. …”

Los mapas de la Nueva Geografía de Colombia de Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco (1901-1902) by David Alejandro Ramírez Palacios

“…The works of the Colombian geographer, cartographer and historian Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco (1860-1914) —and his cartographic works in particular—, is beginning to be known and valued by Colombian and international historiography. …”
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