Editorial projects and mediations of the past

the Brazilian experience in the cartography of history magazines

Abstract

History magazines have become tools for disseminating representations of the past that reached a wider audience than the academic community. In a diversity of printed media in contemporary culture, some publications have been the target of criticism for escaping the rules of history constituted in the strictness and routines of historiographic methods, whereas other publications have been recognized for the dissemination of college researches to the general public, promoting debates about the social place of historical production. In Brazil, in what has been understood as the social demand for history at the beginning of the 21st century, beyond isolated editorial projects, historical dissemination magazines became part of a set of similar productions from other countries. Thus, this article proposes a mapping of journals considering the implications of the history of mass dissemination in the historiographic field and the Brazilian experience of printed matter that has strengthened the debate about mediations of the past among scholarly historians and the non-specialized public.