Schöner wohnen und besser leben by Christian Reiss

“…Hans Sedlmayr was an influential Austrian art historian in the 20th century. With his book Der Verlust der Mitte, he reached a broad audience beyond academia in post-war Germany. …”
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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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Du féminisme à la sexologie : un parcours en Histoire by Sylvie Chaperon

“…Throughout my time spent as a historian in research, and in French Universities, I’ve attempted to identify each generation that has studied feminism and gender, and the historical turns those groups have taken. …”
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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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Commémoration et histoire : les célébrations du premier centenaire de l’indépendance à Mexico by Michel Bertrand

“…In the same line, a well-known historian, Genaro García, was in charge of writing an «official chronicle» of the celebration. …”
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Pro Deo et Patria Prier pour l’Etat en France au XIXe siècle by Vincent Petit

“…If, by passing the law of December 9th 1905, France adopted « the most radical system of government in the world which separated the Church and the State », as the historian Jean-Marie Mayeur wrote, it also broke in the process with a very old custom, the one which consisted in the prayers that the Church (in this instance, the Catholic Church) addressed to the State. …”
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Contribuições da cartografia temática como instrumento analítico em estudos históricos. by José Rogério Beier, Lucas Montalvão Rabelo

“…It is sought, therefore, to draw attention to some relevant elements of this tool that can serve the historian in the formulation of new problems for his investigation; in the analysis of the problems already formulated and, mainly, in the construction of the argumentation of his narrative. …”
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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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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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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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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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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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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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