This article analyzes the counter-memory elaborated during the regency period over Pernambuco's political movements of 1817 and 1824, disseminated mainly through O Carapuceiro (1832-1842), newspaper edited by Miguel do Sacramento Lopes Gama. We try to demonstrate that this newspaper was mainly political, and not merely cultural, and that it had great influence in the process of the return of conservatives to power in 1837. We also examine how the memory of those events has been redefined between the decades of 1840 and 1860 as a result of the publication of works such as the History of the Pernambuco Revolution in 1817, written by Muniz Tavares, and of the foundation of the Pernambuco Archeological and Geographic Institute, in 1862, which have aimed to create another counter-memory of those movements, articulating that with the construction of a provincial identity opposed to the imperial identity forged within the IHGB and of the historiography produced there.
memory; public sphere; Pernambuco; revolution; federalism