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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Historia y memoria del trabajo forzado del sistema concentracionario franquista by Juan Carlos García-Funes, Fernando Mendiola Gonzalo

“…Regardless the recent efforts carried out by historians and memorial associations, this lack of knowledge reaches the victims’ families and a great part of Spanish society. …”
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Adventures With Mommsen by Brian Croke

“… Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) has long been considered the greatest Roman historian of the nineteenth century. Above all he was an accomplished philo­logist, editor and scholarly organiser. …”
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Hadot Among the Medievalists: Revisiting the Historiography on “Intellectual Felicity” in the Thirteenth Century by Matteo Johannes Stettler

“…The reception of Hadot’s work on the tradition of spiritual exercises among historians of medieval philosophy has rarely produced the results one might reasonably have expected. …”
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« The Fault is that she is my wife » : L’ambivalence des représentations d’Henriette-Marie (1625-1649) by Alice Leroy

“…Many historians have focused on Charles I, his reign but his representations. …”
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Historical reality and „understanding" the hermeneutical approach by Kęstutis Dubnikas

“…The historian is necessarily a historical being himself; he/she is deeply rooted in a concrete historical context. …”
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LEADING THEORIES IN AKWA IBOM COLONIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY by Edet Efiong Okon

“…European scholars, missionaries, historians and scientists were dislodged to perfect Britain's ambitions in Akwa Ibom area through various ideological and pseudo-scientific postulations. …”
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L’Antiphonaire d’Oosteeklo et son enlumineur (Cornelia van Wulfschkercke ?) by Dominique Vanwijnsberghe

“…Despite its importance for the history of Flemish book painting, the Oosteeklo Antiphonal, kept at the library of the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts, has been largely neglected by art historians. A remarkable colophon discloses the identity of its patroness, Quentine de Mastaing, abbess of the Cistercian convent of Oosteeklo. …”
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The Landbound Chicken and the Deliberate Chameleon yet have their Uses: Yorùbá Art History, Language, and Interpretation. by Kathy Curnow

“…The import of Abiodun’s major contributions regarding Yorùbá art’s history and the validity of his contentions are considered here in light of the varied contributions both foreign and Yorùbá art historians bring to Yorùbá scholarship, in the recognition that working with art of bygone centuries makes all scholars outsiders to a degree.   …”
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O rei que esmorece e a rainha sanhuda by Inês Olaia

“…The 1383-1385 dynastic crisis has been studied by generations of historians. This article aims to contribute to the debate through a florescent historiographical field that does not seem to have been used to analyse the main narrative of the events, written by Fernão Lopes: the History of Emotions. …”
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Le musée de Sculpture comparée au prisme de la collection de cartes postales éditées par les frères Neurdein (1904-1915) by Dominique Jarrassé, Emmanuelle Polack

“…Beyond the patrimonialisation of this exceptional collection, the article focuses on the first series of 486 cards organised chronologically and proposes an analysis of the intrusion of this medium, during its “golden age”, into the art historian’s studio.…”
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Burial customs, the afterlife and the pollution of death in ancient Greece by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…The sources consulted include Homer's epic poems, archaeological data and vase paintings, as well as the writings of later historians, philosophers and other prominent people. …”
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Histoire des idées politiques et sources littéraires : L'Éducation sentimentale dans le contexte des jugements historiques sur Juin 1848 by Fausto Proietti

“…In fact, in order to support his description, Flaubert uses mainly four historical accounts, those written by the “leftist” historians Hippolyte Castille, Daniel Stern, Marc Caussidière and Louis Blanc. …”
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Just Who Was Wearing the Trousers in Victorian Britain? Violent Wives and Violent Women by Anne-Marie Kilday

“…Intra-marital violence is a subject often examined by sociologists, psychologists and historians alike, albeit from a very traditional perspective. …”
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La Première Guerre mondiale et les jeux vidéo by Antoine Maillard

“…The representation of the First World War in this game was analyse several times by developers, media and historians.…”
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Saliamonas Antanaitis (1894–1973) and his research into the old mathematics by Juozas Banionis

“…Antanaitis having made a thorough analysis of works of European science historians presented these science personalities and underlined importance of their works for the development of the higher mathematics. …”
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Entitlements/rights, dignity and liberal democracy. Against the backdrop of the text by Cardinal Gerhard Müller “The Popes as Guardians of Human Dignity” by Bogdan Szlachta

“…In his interesting contribution, Cardinal Gerhard Müller once again turned to this category to expound upon its significance for Catholic reflection, to draw attention to its role in the teachings of 20th century Popes, and to bring it to light in connection with the increasing disputes concerning the ability/validity of “improving human nature”. Historians of political thought are interested in these disputes, and see them - insofar as they are carried out by using categories developed mainly in Western reflection - not as new ones, but rather embedded in past polemics, referring to old approaches, notably those which are prevailing today. …”
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The Firebombing of Tokyo: Views from the Ground by Cary Karacas, Bret Fisk

“…In stark contrast to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, however, historians and other scholars working in the English language have paid little attention to the tremendous societal impact - both immediate and long-lasting - of the destruction by firebombing of Japan's cities. …”
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Vestiges de collections by Margaux Dumas

“…Through the archives of the Commission de Récupération Artistique from 1944 to the 1950s, and by delving into Le Répertoire des biens spoliés published beginning in 1947, historians can bring to life rare objects, private collections, and dismantled and disappeared sets, recounting their respective biographies and offering a perspective on the tastes of the time, thanks to the descriptions, photographs and drawings that accompany the inventories. …”
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