The work investigates the journal The Athenaeum, produced by students of a schooling São Leopoldo/RS, between the years 1937 and 1973. The clipping wash o sent the decades from 1964 to 1973. The research proposed to analyze the discourses present related to the context of the military dictator ship in Brazil. The Athenaeum is taken as an element of material culture school that represents the tangent possibility of some aspects of the school culture of Lutheran confession representative of Vale do Rio dos Sinos. Observe that The Athenaeum was a space of affirmation and identity constructions of a group of young high school students. As for speeches concerning the dictatorial regime, it is observed that the present manifestations appearing the journal, mostly covertly. However, it is also possible to understand through research, that students were concerned with the social and political issues of the country because, in 1963, there are records of this school that graduated from the Department of Political and Social Studies Brazilians - DEPSB -as an organ of student guild. In the records of the minutes of the tender DEPSB, not only students but also a teacher usually met on the night shift to discuss what they recorded as current issues of international and brazilian politics.
culture school; journal student; memory; military dictatorship