History

End of year award

Pesquisa FAPESP received Synapsis and IMPA Journalism Awards in 2022

Pasteur’s ideas in our daily lives

Born 200 years ago, the French chemist established the methods used to this day to prevent the transmission of infectious diseases

Erotica in the work of Mário de Andrade

Aspect of the modernist's work remains taboo and rarely studied, say experts

Brazilian museums propose new curatorial approaches

Advances in scientific knowledge push institutions to rethink curatorial proposals

History museums discover treasures in technical archives

Artifacts from Candomblé places of worship and objects from everyday life are on display for the first time, offering renewed interpretations of society

Ethnographic museums reframe collections

Institutions are establishing dialogues with Indigenous peoples, identifying new meanings behind their collections

A 4,000-year-old comb for removing head lice

Archaeologists find 4,000-year-old comb for removing head lice

Azerbaijan tried to erase Armenian culture

Report identifies attempted erasure of Armenian culture in Nakhchivan

The first map of the night sky

Star catalog by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus (190 BC–120 BC) found in Egypt

The Amazon’s Treasure

In an eighteenth-century book, a Portuguese Jesuit shows empathy for Indigenous peoples and, as a naturalist, describes rivers, plants, and animals

Mercenaries fought against the Carthaginians alongside the Greeks

Mercenaries fought against the Carthaginians alongside the Greeks in 480 B.C.

How do Yanomami dream?

Ethnographic studies bring to light Amerindian peoples' interpretations on oneiric activities | 4'14

Ambitious education projects after Brazil’s independence suffered from a lack of resources

Liberalism and the need for national cohesion inspired proposals for universal public education, but funding was never sufficient

4,000-year-old arrowheads point to cultural exchanges between England and France

Half of artifacts from an archaeological site in Wales were made using British techniques and materials; the other half used methods and rocks from mainland Europe

Fernando Novais: The spheres of existence

The professor from USP and UNICAMP talks about his career, the place of history in the field of social sciences, and the crisis of the colonial system that led to the Independence of Brazil

Ancient peoples dug up the dead

Digging up the dead and then burying them again with adornments was a common mortuary practice for ancient South American peoples

New Pesquisa FAPESP scientific coordinator

Physicist Luiz Nunes de Oliveira named scientific coordinator of Pesquisa FAPESP

The history of science through letters

Oswaldo Cruz’s correspondence reflects the communication among doctors and the formation of healthcare institutions in the early twentieth century

José Bonifácio connected ideas from the Age of Enlightenment to Brazil’s Independence process

Mineralogist and professor in Coimbra, “the patriarch” proposed a political and economic project for the new country

Studies shed light on Arab presence in Brazil

Initiatives provide opportunities for new lines of research on the topic

Marcelo Ridenti: The fight for hearts and minds during the Cold War

Sociologist releases new book about Brazilian intellectuals’ activities during the political-ideological conflict between the United States and the USSR

Drought caused collapse of Mayan capital

Lack of water was behind the civil conflicts that led to the fall of the Mayan capital in present-day Mexico

Images of history, history of images

Origins of Independência ou Morte!

Historian identifies French and Italian works that likely influenced the famed painting’s Brazilian author Pedro Américo

Selective memory

The director of the Paulista Museum at the beginning of the 20th century commissioned paintings to exclude depictions of popular participation in the fight for Brazil’s Independence

The surprises of old maps

Navy collection brought from Portugal in 1808 reveals cartographers and little-known phenomena

Brazil’s post-independence justice system broke away from, yet built on, the past

The country’s Judiciary was established amid major shifts in the late colonial period

Brazil’s independence, from A to Z

New and diverse “Independence Dictionary” features 700 entries written by 276 different researchers from 11 countries

Science to help build a nation

Museums, research institutions, maps, and surveys of natural resources grew in importance in the Brazilian Empire

Paper battle

Newspapers and political pamphlets spread ideas, questions, and controversies surrounding Brazil’s independence