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The military demobilization of allied troops stationed in Paraguay and the festivities and commemorations at the end of the War of the Triple Alliance were controversial subjects and occur in the documents produced by foreign embassies and by the press in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. The discussion formed the imagination of journalists and political disputes between liberals and conservatives in Brazil, between 1869 and 1870. Current paper simultaneously uses contemporary official documents and newspapers to demonstrate how the theme was forwarded by the government and by the press to Brazilian society. It will also be a great help for the writing of the history of the War against Paraguay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ancestors of the Xukuru of Ororubá, Fulni-ô and Wassú, and other indigenous peoples in the northeastern region of Brazil participated in the War against Paraguay. What do documents and registers inform us on the subject? What did these populations report on the War? What is the meaning of indigenous memories on the conflict? Recent studies on the "great war" bring about a novel interpretation by going beyond the traditional points of the war, by describing the battles and the biography of war heroes. Current approach tries to understand the different phases of the conflict and the different social groups involved. Current paper discusses the indigenous history and memories on the War against Paraguay within current debates on the conflict, for a better comprehension of indigenous history in contemporary Northeast of Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aureliano Cândido Tavares Bastos was one of the protagonists in the debate on the possibility of religious freedom in 19th century Brazil. Current paper analyzes the book Cartas do Solitário and Bourdieu field concept to have an in-depth discussion on the issue and other questions of interest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current paper investigates Christian representations of hell and the devils in the Jesuit priest Alexandre Perier's Desengano dos Pecadores. Discourses and engravings that illustrate the book, published in Portugal in 1724, are analyzed to identify representations of the devil, associations established between sin, hell and the damnation of souls and the effects of the author's experience who worked in the northeastern region of Brazil by the end of the 17th century. Fourteen discourses are included, with suggestions for a virtuous and holy life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current paper analyzes the textbook called Pequena História da Educação by Sisters Francisca Peeters and Augusta de Cooman (1936), which was widely used in Training Colleges in Brazil. The concept of History, Education and Childhood in the textbook are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current paper analyzes criminal court suits in which individuals were accused of murder perpetuated to solve personal conflicts. The social and cultural standards in the solution of conflicts are debated, coupled to the social norms that imbued and interfered in the judgments, within the limits of current research, or rather Brazilian society in mid-20th century. The doctrine of one of the main jurists in the country, analyzing the discrepancies in the 1940 Penal Code, is investigated, or rather, crimes against life and property. Events are investigated where the legitimation of the homicidal act occurred as from social conditions of the people involved and those with psychic and moral conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current paper problematizes the interpretations that frazine punks of São Paulo produced at the start of the New Republic. The images of José Sarney which were constructed and represented in magazines of the mid 1980s, such as Violência Gratuita, Holocausto, Falange Anarquista, Chantagem Ocasional, Revolta do Subúrbio, N.C Punk e Pânico, are investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current paper deals with the several ways in celebrating Carnival by the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th century, analyzed from different sources such as newspapers of the period and musicals. The Carnival songs are focused, coupled to a description of the effort of educated people and authorities in attempting to regulate, discipline and homogenize the Carnival feasts in Rio de Janeiro. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current paper analyzes the responses of 138 high school children through Focal Groups to investigate how they appropriated the book Guia Politicamente Incorreto da História do Brasil [A politically incorrect guide to the History of Brazil] published by the journalist Leandro Narloch in 2009. The History of Brazil, as taught in the schools, is criticized. The author argues that History teachers are outdated due to their leftist trends. Backward cultures, especially the Indigenes, are among the many items that the school teaches in an ambiguous way. In the author's view, they are against the principles for the strengthening of the nation, namely, rationality, entrepreneurship, progress and work. Since Narloch proposes to disrupt, negate and criticize History as taught in the schools, emphasizing the presentation of discourse to the detriment of 'objectivity', he convinces and persuades the reader. Results show that knowledge within society, especially that disseminated by the social media, may be pedagogically more powerful than the school; that the model of critical interpretation does not mean a historical and social critique; that the differences between forms of living and thinking, past and present, are seen within an unhistorical perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to disclose part of the results of History's Field Institutional Program of Scholarship in Teaching Initiation (PIBID). The Project is being developed in four public schools from Regional Education Nucleo of Ivaiporã/PR, a town that has an State University of Maringá (UEM) campus. The study is another effort to analyze Pibid's contribution in formation of History grade's undergraduates, also brings the possibility to comprehend theoretical, politics and ideological grounding that is underlying in the legislation and in programmatic subjects in schools curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although not listed among the conspiring governors of the 1964 coup, Ney Braga participated actively in the conspiring and dissemination of the civil and military coup d'état in 1964. Current paper analyzes the role of the governor of the state of Paraná in the coup and in the processes of political impeachments of his political enemies. It also investigates his relationship with the PTB in the state of Paraná and with the João Goulart administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The killing of animals for human consumption in the early 19th century was done in a rudimentary form and without any government control. Concern on the rationalization and modernization of urban spaces started to take priority. A greater intervention of sanitary authorities within social dynamics implied in the revision of several aspects on the different moments of meat production, such as conditions for breeding and killing of animals in abattoirs, new requirements on the hygiene of abattoirs, the need for centralization and control by the municipal authorities for abattoirs, control of laborers in abattoirs and the gradual displacement of abattoirs far from urban space and from the sight of the population within ethical concerns on the death of animals. Current paper analyzes the initial phase of this transforming process of abattoirs taking as example the specific case of the municipal abattoir in Ponta Grossa PR Brazil in 1888. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current paper traces the historiographical pathway of the French philosopher Michel Foucault. The review of his main works and of the writings of his commentators shows the critique that the author makes on the writing of history: the interrogation of evidences of anthropological beliefs, the configuration of investigations that give priority to conditions of the rise of discourses and practices -- Archeology and Genealogy, refusal of the unilateral aspect and the importance of the discontinuous and unforeseeable stance of historical narrative, invisible to grand narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current paper deals with the life of the singer and composer Ari Lobo and his professional trajectory is investigated as a popular and regional stance that developed within the Brazilian musical scenario of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Ari Lobo's life reveals the adjustment forms to the musical market established and experimented by singers who, in similar conditions, became successful as stars of the Brazilian regional songs. Ari Lobo and other singers and composers of the Brazilian northern and northeastern regions triggered a 'popular' version of the song which became characteristic of Brazilian music. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on 20 years of publications of the journal "Dialogos" in the field of History. Topics discussed include its editorial policy to include the academic and scientific research of the Postgraduate Program in History; publication of scientific papers by researchers from several regions of Brazil and several other countries; and indexing of articles on international bases, such as scopus and historical abstracts, among others.