This article discusses the texts and purposes of the História Nova do Brasil series, a joint production of the Ministério da Educação e Cultura and the Instituto Superior de Estudos Brasileiros (Iseb) launched in 1964 and soon aborted by the military dictatorship. The intent is to reconstitute its context to present the many influences on this project and to examine its impact and the debates and disputes that resulted, to try to recover the details of this important effort at renewing the teaching of history in Brazil.
História Nova do Brasil; historiography and History teaching; military dictatorship