This paper consists of a study on the establishment of the History subject in the state of Parana, Brazil. It examines the structure of this disciplinary field along the path of the assertion of the secondary school in the political and cultural context of the former Province of Parana during the mid-19th Century. The configuration of History teaching is analyzed through the textbooks adopted at that time and considers its implications for the development of an intellectual elite, that was being prepared, by means of the secondary courses, to take positions in the state bureaucracy during the period in which Brazilian society transited from the Empire to the Republic as a form of government.
History teaching; Parana; secondary education
