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CANIZALES VIJIL, Rolando de Jesús. The Beginning of the Professionalization of History in Honduras and the History Career (1976-1990). Rev. hist. Am. [online]. 2023, n.164, pp.195-228.  Epub 27-Feb-2024. ISSN 2663-371X.  https://doi.org/10.35424/rha.164.2023.1218.

The research aims to examine the institutional and political processes in Honduran society from the 1950s to the 1980s, that are related to the beginning of the professionalization of the historian's profession and the organization of the History Department at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) in 1976. It details some institutional aspects of the University and relates them to a broader social context. The aim is to provide a social view of an institutional phenomenon such as the organization of the History Department. We consulted journalistic sources, internal documents of the University (memories, projects, minutes) and recorded some testimonies of actors who participated in the organization and first years of operation. In the end, it is notable that the professors and officials who gave rise to the career had a clear intention to make history a contribution of critical knowledge that would question the official discourses on the nation, something considered vital for the creation of a popular national conscience. This knowledge, however, would also be based on academic ideas that predominated at that time on the structural study of social phenomena. The originality resided in the fact that this was joined to a particular idea of scientific work as collective labor, field work and social projection that transcended the university classrooms.

Palabras llave : historiography; institutionalization; university; politics; science; academy.

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