This text reports on part of an experimental research project aimed at identifying and characterizing the conditions for the development of student activity in the history classroom that has something to do, on...

French students in a graduate training program to become history teachers have been studying a document in a typical classroom activity about an unknown topic (The American Civil War). This paper shows how clos...

We take advantage of a course on World War I to question the links between scientific history and the history classroom. To do this we not only deal with the transposition of content knowledge and of inquiry an...