The main objective of this article is to point out a brief radiography of contemporary Historic didactic books, analyzed from some central thematic present on the investigations related to educational knowledge. The example is formed by the book collection that participated on 2005 National Program of Didactics Books (PNLD), sponsored by Brazilian government. In order to compose a global categorization were used the results of the last History books evaluation, published in the beginning of 2004. The authors had participated in the execution of the whole process of evaluation.
History didactic books; National Program of Didactic Books (PNLD); Teaching History
