Abstract
The aim of this article is to propose a preliminary analysis of attitudes and values that Brazilians have nowadays about a specific historical event - the Independence of Brazil - as well as reflecting on the relationship of such values and attitudes towards academic conditions of intellectual formulation around a historical fact. The research is based on textbooks, bestsellers, videos, movies and History magazines as well as on a public opinion pool. Finally, the article discusses the notion of "culture of history", and how it can possibly guide Brazilian social values about the past.
Keywords:
Independence; culture of history; public history; history teaching; historiography