Abstract

SAMACA ALONSO, Gabriel David. The editorial institutionalization of the national history in Colombia, 1900-1918: a study of the National Library of History. Rev. hist. Am. [online]. 2023, n.166, pp.53-82.  Epub Feb 27, 2024. ISSN 2663-371X.  https://doi.org/10.35424/rha.166.2023.4312.

The article seeks to reconstruct the conception and implementation of the National History Library as part of the institutionalization process that history writing experienced in Colombia in the first two decades of the 20th century. This company began as a private initiative to later become one of the fundamental projects of the National Academy of History. Through the compilation, preparation, and publication of documentary sources, as well as the dissemination of original research, the foundations for the scientific practice of history were laid. Based on some tools from the history of publishing, we argue that the formalization of historical knowledge in this northern Andean country was possible thanks to the editorial work that the State undertook to consolidate a vision of the past focused on the construction of the republican order above partisan differences. The official history elaborated from the Academy was not exempt from the administrative weaknesses, economic limitations and vicissitudes of a State in post-war times. The work is based on the study of institutional correspondence, personal documentation of one of the main editors of the Library, the volumes published in the first two decades and serial publications.

Keywords : National History; National History Library; National Academy of History; Historiography; History of publishing; Colombia.

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