The Reception of Neptune’s Discovery in British and American Protestant Theology by Zenon Roskal, Jacek Rodzeń

“…Indeed, the significance of this event is still a subject of interest among historians and philosophers of science. During the period discussed, natural theology played a special cognitive and social role, forming the basis for arguments based on the new knowledge of nature. …”
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La guerre et le canon by Michel Matly

“…This validates comics as pertinent sources for historians or sociologists, but also put our own representation of the war into perspective, as not more than the look of “here and today”. …”
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USSR and revival of Indonesian Communist Party by L. M. Efimova

“…For more than two generations, historians have been asking themselves whether Moscow participated in the organizational and ideological revival of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) in 1951-53. …”
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La lettre des frères pontifes contenant la Vita lyonnaise de saint Bénezet (1245) : une forgerie au service d’un récit fondateur lyonnais ? by Jean-Benoît Krumenacker

“…Up until now, this text has mainly been used by historians from Avignon discussing the Avignon bridge or its founder, with no connection to the Lyon context of its writing. …”
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Encodage et décodage des récits historiques. Un cas : la série Le Canada, une histoire populaire by Olivier Côté

“…This article, based on the investigation of the CBC documentary archives and of the fond Ramsay Cook , examines the circulation of historical narratives within Canadian society through the analysis of the context of production of the TV series Canada: A People’s History – what we call ‘narrative encoding’ –, the study of the dynamics between CBC’s journalists and historians, and the decoding of this ‘encoded’ historical narrative by TV viewers who sent their e-mails to the CBC. …”
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«Lo que son los sirionoses hoy, eran, hace algunos decenios, los guarayos». Algunas reflexiones sobre la conquista y reducción de los Sirionó, 1926-1943 by Pilar García Jordán

“…Taking into consideration the point of view of historians as well as a few theoretical loans from anthropology, the aim of this work is to propose a wider knowledge of the Sirionós as a group through several sources, the main one being the Diaries written by the missionaries in charge of successfully leading the process of «conquest».…”
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Représenter volailles et volaillères dans la peinture italienne du Cinquecento by Valérie Boudier

“…Artistic image has a language of its own the Art historians attempt to decipher by analyzing the objectives, conventions, styles, and techniques of each work. …”
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Les grandes messes panarabes : festivals et biennales d’art arabe dans les années 1970 by Alia Nakhli

“…In our opinion, these events did not receive the recognition they deserved among art historians. A “Golden Age” in the early 1970s, marked by energy and enthusiasm was followed by a period of reduced activity and institutional inertia ending ultimately in the discontinuation of the event, despite various efforts to revive the exchange dynamic.…”
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Behind the Myth: The Representation of the Crimean War in Nineteenth-century British Newspapers, Government Archives & Contemporary Records by Tri Tran

“…In the end prominent historians consider the Crimean war was in many aspects useless and costly; the argument of this paper is that painful historical truth came to be hidden in the depth of Britain’s national consciousness, behind a few comforting Victorian myths.…”
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Entrer à l’école maternelle : le contrat narcissique à l’épreuve du scolaire by Véronique Kannengiesser

“…The article, based on authors historians and sociologists of the education, shows that the infant school, since its creation, distinguishes itself of the other childcare facilities and that its educational model tends increasingly towards that of the elementary school but with its own objectives. …”
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Faut-il se souvenir du républicanisme anglais ? L’héritage intellectuel du républicanisme anglais dans le temps long by Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq

“…However, if one considers its intellectual origins, the abundance of theoretical debate at the time of the First English Revolution, the importance of its reception across the British Isles, Europe and America and the manifest or subterranean role it played in transatlantic revolutions and its legacies, it appears as a legitimate object of study for historians of political thought; which is why there has been sustained interest in the history of this intellectual tradition over the past few decades.…”
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Recognising Cartulary Studies Thirty Years after Les cartularies by Joanna Tucker

“…It reflects on how this field has developed since the early 1990s, especially what has characterised the research and the kinds of themes and questions historians have explored. It situates the latest work on cartularies within the broader development of the field, such as long established interests in cartulary function, typologies, codicology and scribes, and the influences of editorial practices, as well as emerging ideas about reading cartularies. …”
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Il y a un siècle, le mouvement pour le suffrage des femmes en Irlande by Máire Cross

“…This article looks at how Irish historians have presented the question since the development of gender history. …”
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D’allié à ennemi. Stéréotypes et représentations du combattant russe dans les magazines illustrés français durant la Grande Guerre by Raymond Blanchard, Joceline Chabot, Sylvia Kasparian

“…Recent research in the social and cultural history of the Great War views literary, media, and iconographic productions as a significant aspect of the individual and collective war experience, and scholars see these productions as forming « war cultures ». Historians analyze these « war cultures » partly through the press, which position at the crossroads of government propaganda and public opinion makes it an effective tool for understanding popular mobilization in the context of a total war. …”
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Biblioteca del Niño Mexicano (1899-1901) y Episodios Mexicanos (1981-1982) : ficciones históricas ilustradas, ¿sólo para niños ? by Marie Lecouvey, Helia Bonilla

“…The second one is illustrated by several teams of designers, led by teams of historians and scholars of other social sciences; it is published by the Secretary of Public Education with the initial goal of giving access to all (children and adults) to the historical truth. …”
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Conquête d’un milieu, adaptation à une multitude de réalités : l’exemple de la conquête romaine des espaces oasiens égyptiens by Evelyne Ferron

“…The archaeological diggings started late in this area, but because of the quantity of artefacts and documents available for the Roman period, it allows now historians specialised in Roman history to study the oases during Roman occupation. …”
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A Concepção de Tempo Geográfico do Mediterrâneo de Vidal de la Blache by Larissa Alves de Lira

“…This sequence of the paper “Vidal historian” (http://confins.revues.org/9636) aims to situate the geographer Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845-1918) in a slow process of institutionalization of geography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; and in his own transition from historian to geographer. …”
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De la memoria a la historia. Un estado de la cuestión sobre la participación española en la resistencia by Diego Gaspar Celaya

“…However, the paper pays special attention to the work of three French historians –Geneviève Dreyfus-Armand, Denis Peschanski and Emile Temime–, the three pioneers who theorized about oblivion and evolution of Spanish resistance studies, and about the official recognition of Spanish figthers. …”
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La Nouvelle-Orléans au XIXe siècle : femmes de couleur libres, femmes de pouvoir ? by Nathalie Dessens

“…This article dwells on the emergence of a few feminine figures in the studies conducted by historians of Louisiana since the 1980s and examines the relative invisibility of women in the early historiography of New Orleans’s antebellum period (1800-1860). …”
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Les Souverains Anonymes : des archives carcérales du « dedans » by Simon-Olivier Gagnon, Anne Klein

“…Since 1999, a website has been online, which constitutes a form of archive of prisoners over which they have control, unlike the archives of police and judicial institutions, which are generally the documents through which these people are seized, whether by police officers and judges or by historians. As an expression of the concerns of the incarcerated, these archives not only make it possible to write a history from prison, but they are also the manifestation of a singular relationship to the world that is constructed over the course of the archiving process.…”
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