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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The Cultural and Religious Dimension of Russia and the Orthodox World in the 17th Century in the Interpretation of Slavophiles by A. V. Skizhenok

“…The publication of the monograph of the Polish historian and philosopher in Russian last year was accompanied by considerable interest both in the conclusions of the author himself and in the topic that he touched on in the book. …”
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Discussion about Belarussian Church autocephaly during Nazi occupation of Belarus by I. V. Petrov

“…A book by the Belarusian church historian Andrey Pukanov is devoted to this period of history. …”
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Ici commence le Brésil ! Géohistoire d’une frontière compliquée by Federico Ferretti

“…A new work by the Brazilian historian Carlo Romani gives an important contribution to the geo-historical construction of the border between Brazil and French Guiana, including its political importance and its impact on local society. …”
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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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Betekenis en betekeniskonstruksie in beeldkommunikasie by Pieter Jacobus Fourie

“… IN this article the author deals with certain arguments by the art philosopher historian Ernst Gombrich on the perception of images. …”
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«On seven dashing blowing winds...» (About book by D. I. Petin «The History of the Omsk clan of Batyushkin») by A. A. Shtyrbul

“…The paper analyzes the monograph «The History of the Omsk clan of Batyushkin» prepared by the Omsk historian-archivist and public figure, candidate of historical sciences, associate professor D. …”
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«The Kolchak regime was based on the main ideological component — antiBolshevism, which in those conditions did not need additional clarification of the political program ...» by A. S. Puchenkov

“…Alexander Sergeevich Puchenkov is St. Petersburg historian, doctor of historical sciences, well-known expert on the Civil War in Southern Russia. …”
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Bọlanle Awẹ: The Matriarch of Feminist History by Toyin Falola

“… At the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the University of Ibadan, famous historian, Professor Bọlanle Awẹ was conferred with a well-deserved honorary doctorate degree. …”
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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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About the History of Design through teaching and innovation by Alberto Caruso

“…The aim of this article is to reflect on two different but complementary aspects of the work of the historian of industrial design: his role as a researcher on the one hand, and the one as a lecturer on the other. …”
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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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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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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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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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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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About myths and true story of Muslims of Ust-Ishim district of Omsk region (Islam through the prism of local history) by A. P. Yarkov

“…The described case testifies that in the future, the creation of scientifically grounded «Histories of Siberian villages» is an urgent task for scientists and local historians…”
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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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