History and historians in the Science Popularization of Nineteenth-Century Brazil: the "Gloria Popular Conferences"

This paper aims to understand the place of History and historians in the Gloria Popular Conferences - considered by the historiography as one of the most important and ambitious Science Communication projects in Brazil during the 19th century. For that, the profiles, themes, and approaches of History lecturers held between 1873-1880 were analyzed, indicating that historical themes played an expressive role on the Gloria Popular Conferences. Moreover, the results show that historians and the represented History were aligned with the historiographic purposes of Instituto Historico e Geografico Brasileiro (IHGB), whereby History, as well as other humanities and natural sciences, met the public education criteria that guided the project from its beginning.