This article analyzes the path of the Historical and Geographical Brazilian Institute and of the Historical and Geographical Institute of Minas Gerais, observing the context of their formation and performance. The production of the knowledge and the political elite mixed up in two moments and, during the Empire, the reading of the history reiterated monarchy existence. After 1889, fell to IHGMG Inconfidencia Mineira, recovery under the first founding republican model of Brazilian History. The didactic production reinforced, in both cases, the orientation offered by the Historical Institutes.
Historical Institutes; text books; National History