ABSTRACT
The present article intends to analyze the circumstances involving the articulation of three law graduates, Bernardo Guimarães, Flávio Farnese and Lafaiete Rodrigues, who met at the beginning of 1859 in Rio de Janeiro, the capital of the Empire of Brazil at that moment, to found a liberal “paper” entitled A Actualidade, lasting up to the year 1861. We sustain that their passage by the Law School of the University of São Paulo was one of the great factors responsible for the association between the three teenagers from Minas Gerais, defining the centrality of the theme “nation” as the axis of their journalism activity, for their carefully analysis of the educational policy in that context, and for an explicitly educational tone they adopted in relation to their readers.
Keywords:
Law graduates; Press; Education; Politics; Nineteenth century.