@article{Pasamar_2012, place={Ouro Preto}, title={The Traditional Forms of the “History of the Present” from Herodotus to Humanist Historians}, volume={5}, url={https://www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br/revista/article/view/463}, DOI={10.15848/hh.v0i10.463}, abstractNote={The present article revolves around the interest in contemporary history from ancient writers to humanist historians. Its objective, which forms part of a broader purpose devoted to elucidating the characteristics of the so-called History of the Present, is to examine the forms this interest has traditionally adopted. In this way, we put for consideration the following hypothesis: from classical historians onwards, concern with contemporary history was always considered a hard and inevitable task to be undertaken, since it affected rulers and living people. Nevertheless, the long-standing doctrine of history as memory of events for centuries prevented historians from facing paradoxes that interest in contemporary past implies, that is: how can historians confront the political uses, memories and demands of public opinion to deal with the recent past without jeopardizing historical truth?}, number={10}, journal={História da Historiografia: International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography}, author={Pasamar, Gonzalo}, year={2012}, month={nov.}, pages={165–182} }