The author reflects on how topics related to the province of Silesia were dealt with in a synthetic study Dzieje narodu polskiego by Józef Dąbrowski. Her analysis is being conducted in a comparative way against the background of mainstream treatises on Polish national history published within the span of 19th century. She argues that Dąbrowski’s study offered a model of presenting Silesian issues that differed from the standard ones to a very significant degree.
The article is the author’s refl ection on her experience related to teaching a course on historiography for undergraduate history students entitled Interpretations of the past. Alterations of images related to historical events, personalities and processes in historical narratives. She presents the general concept of the course, topics and contents of particular classes, as well as (with relation to some exemplary topics) concrete teaching methods used and specific educational effects to be achieved.She also discusses the historiographical sources and scholarly literature she adopted as the textual background of her course.
The text presents the scholarly and popular science output in the field of regional history produced by Łucja Charewiczowa, a female Lvovian historian of the inter -war period. There is a discussion of the most important works of the Researcher in this field, with special emphasis on their conceptualisation, construction, empirical approach and literary qualities. The outline also constitutes an attempt to present the peculiar nature of Charewiczowa’s writings in the context of the regional history works (the social, historical and economic orientation, a strongly marked presence of female figures, educational and patriotic aspects). Moreover, it also emphasises the research and narrative approaches of the Lvovian author which were ground -breaking in Poland.
The authors discuss possibilities and limits for applying a research model of the study of memory politics, originally developed by them with the aim to research the Polish case only, to other countries of East Central Europe which after the WW II formed the sphere of the Soviet domination. They pose a question whether it should be appropriate to combine it with the so called transnational approach.
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