The article looks at the History of Paraná discipline between 1876 and 1905. The sources focused on are the compendiums used at the time in secondary schools. In addition, the historical discourse of schools present in the textbooks is analyzed and related to narratives produced about the meaning of nation. Although the issue that links the birth of the discipline with the construction of the national state is well known, the way it was dealt with in the different provinces of the Brazilian Empire still remains to be examined. The analysis shows that the textbooks, the object of the study, created either coexistence or correlation between general approaches - whether they were universal or civilista - and national ones, indicating how national history struggled to establish itself as an autonomous discipline until the early years of the Brazilian Republic.
History teaching; Paraná; compendiums