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We need you, Uncle Sam: Images of the USA Entry into World War I in Polish School History Textbooks During the First Two Decades of the Twenty-first …
2021
This paper presents an analysis of the content of Polish school textbooks for teaching history in the context of the USA’s entry into World War I in 1917. School textbooks have been chosen as the dominant source of student history knowledge. Fourteen textbooks were analysed: seven for the third stage of education (lower secondary schools) and seven for the fourth stage (upper secondary schools, technical schools). These were used between 2001 and 2017. The USA’s entry into the Great War undoubtedly had a decisive impact on the outcome of the global conflict. The article shows the way in which this subject was presented to students in schools. We analyse the information contained in the text…
New Approaches to OCR for Early Printed Books
2020
Books printed before 1800 present major problems for OCR. One of the main obstacles is the lack of diversity of historical fonts in training data. The OCR-D project, consisting of book historians and computer scientists, aims to address this deficiency by focussing on three major issues. Our first target was to create a tool that identifies font groups automatically in images of historical documents. We concentrated on Gothic font groups that were commonly used in German texts printed in the 15th and 16th century: the well-known Fraktur and the lesser known Bastarda, Rotunda, Textura und Schwabacher. The tool was trained with 35,000 images and reaches an accuracy level of 98%. It can not on…
Ancient bridges of Sicily: punctual signs of a past that disappears
2018
Sono indelebili i segni lasciati dall’uomo sul territorio, testimonianze che il tempo conserva e la storia ci consegna e il cui insieme costituisce una trama fittissima che si sovrappone alla struttura fisica dell’ambiente, integrandolo e modificandolo. Grandi opere, monumenti universalmente riconosciuti come capolavori della mente e delle mani dell’uomo, ma anche opere minori, manufatti d’uso comune, beni isolati che costituiscono gli elementi puntuali di una più vasta e complessa organizzazione di fenomeni insediativi, le tessere di un mosaico ricco di sfumature e riflessi, frutto di un lungo processo di stratificazione storica. Alla categoria dei beni isolati appartengono le torri, i cas…
La història digital: una certa idea i algunes il·lustracions
2013
A les darreres dècades, les noves tecnologies han fet que els historiadors reconsiderin les formes com investiguen, escriuen i difonen el seu treball. La pretensió d’aquest text és esbossar un marc general al voltant del que significa la història digital, proposant una distinció entre la «història a l’era digital» i «la història digital»: entre els estudiosos que utilitzen certs recursos i eines digitals (processadors de textos, correu electrònic, catàlegs, etcètera) i els acadèmics que desenvolupen una nova comprensió de la història, compromesos amb el paper que les noves tecnologies digitals poden assolir dins l’estudi del passat. Aquest assaig analitza ambdues perspectives, presentant un…
Energy retrofit actions on Italian historical buildings: energy efficiency and feasibility. A review study.
2016
Today in EU, the growth in global primary energy consumption is decreasing. In 2014, Italy contributed with a global reduction of 17.1%, thanks to the application of EU measures on different areas. However, there is still much work to be done in order to make sustainable societies and territories, especially in buildings sector that has the greatest potentiality of energy saving. In particular, in the framework of Conservation, Restoration, Refurbishment, and Retrofit actions, the debate is still open, because many aspects must be considered and solved yet. In this paper, the state of the art of the Italian residential building heritage has been reviewed, applicable energy retrofit issues a…
History teaching: real problems and interessed polemics
2006
En diversos países se ha tratado de poner límites a las innovaciones educativas, de diverso calado, que se estaban produciendo en la enseñanza de la historia, con la intención de retornar a un modelo de enseñanza más próximo a sus características tradicionales, a pesar de las muy razonadas críticas que este modelo tradicional había recibido. Las razones aducidas para tal reversión han variado de un país a otro, pero el objetivo compartido ha sido el de establecer unos programas más dirigistas y cerrados, de tipo marcadamente enciclopédico, en los que las posibilidades de actuación innovadora del profesorado, por una parte, y las de un aprendizaje más razonado del alumnado, por la otra, qued…
Parathënie
2020
Prefazione al volume "Mirdita në Arkivin e Propagandës Fide në shekujt XVII-XIX" contenente una raccolta di documenti storici - trascritti e tradotti in albanese da Arben Ndreca - sulla regione di Mirdita nell'Albania settentrionale, i cui originali sono conservati presso l'Archivio Storico di Propaganda Fide in Vaticano. Si tratta principalmente di relazioni che i prelati della Chiesa Cattolica in Albania inviavano periodicamente alla Congregazione di Propaganda Fide durante un periodo di oltre tre secoli (prima metà XVII sec. - fine XIX sec.) e che oggi costituiscono una preziosa fonte di dati per la storia di quella regione. Preface to the volume "Mirdita në Arkivin e Propagandës Fide në…
Storia
2013
Nella voce è presentata la concezione sturziana della storia, di cui si pone in evidenza la centralità nella complessiva elaborazione intellettuale del fondatore del Partito popolare italiano. Anche l'esperienza politica di Luigi Sturzo, che ha nel municipalismo e popolarismo due punti teorici essenziali, è impostata sulle premesse di un'approfondita interpretazione dei fatti storici.
The Vesalian movement in sixteenth-century Spain.
1979
In the middle of the sixteenth-century under the direct influence of Vesalius's works there arose in Spain a movement devoted to the renewal of anatomical knowledge. It was one of the initial forces in the spread of the Vesalian reform, but in spite of that it has been almost completely ignored by specialized historical research.' The purpose of this article is to provide a general study of the movement with special emphasis on the conditions which determined its development. In the first place I should make it clear that the renewal in question did not arise from the relationship that Vesalius maintained throughout
Neglecting the 19th century
2015
The present article examines the historical narrative proposed by modernization theory about the recent Spanish past. Its assumptions and consequences for historical research focused on the 19th century are described in order to understand the lack of intellectual exchange among historians and sociologists in the Spanish academic world. Modernization theory has justified the political consensus that allowed the Spanish transition to democracy and its academic authority has narrowed the scope of historical research about previous democratization processes. Although the paradigm of Spanish backwardness has been refuted by specialists on 19th-century Spain, sociologists, economists and histor…