Gustavo Barroso (1888-1959) contributed to the magazine O Cruzeirobetween 1948 and 1960, signing the section “Secrets and revelations of the History of Brazil”, dedicated to the dissemination of facts of national history unmentioned in conventional means of History diffusion. Barroso aimed to attract the readers’ attention to the past as a way of stimulating the patriotism. This paper analyzes Gustavo Barroso’s production for a wide audience, and characterizes his narrative and his strategies to achieve the pedagogical goal of the section in a magazine of great national circulation.
Gustavo Barroso (1888-1959); history writing; public history; magazine O Cruzeiro