Abstract: The article analyzes the controversial uses of Argentine history in the magazine Orden Cristiano (Christian Order) (1941-1948), edited by a group of intellectuals and militants of democratic Catholicism. Influenced by the humanist renewal and part of the antifascist arch, the publication was a space of controversy with the fundamentalist sectors of Catholicism and political nationalism. Within this framework, we propose that approaches to local history involved three central lines: the consideration of history as part of the debates of the hour, the rereading of the 19th century in Argentina and the search for a past for the Argentine Christian democracy, that we sustain overlapped with the concerns that marked the site of the magazine in the political-intellectual space.
Keywords:
Orden Cristiano; Democratic Catholicism; Antifascism; Argentine History; World War II; Peronism