This work deals with the history taught in initial grades of elementary school, under the perspective of history of disciplines. The text intends to show the current researches contribution about history and memory in order to understand this school discipline trajectory discerning both terms and dealing with their disciplinary courses. It registers that the history taught, mainly in initial grades, was dominantly under the memory empire not only due to the view that history teaching was constructed by dates and national important figures memorization, but also because history became an important mean to dispose memory and change into national History through methodological and historiographic resources from the nineteenth century.
Discipline History; Taught History; History and memory