História da Faculdade de Sciencias Juridicas e Sociaes de Manáos no contexto de <i>Belle Époque</i> - 1909

This article discusses the formation and early years of the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of Manaus through the lens of Amazonian academic journals from the 1910s to 1920s. This study explores the emergence of the program in 1909, under the name of the Free University School of Manaus. The work also aims to address the process of the faculty's recognition by the appropriate federal agencies and analyze the academic press's stance on this process. The methodology used is periodical analysis, combined with the concept of memory, contextualized within a social history framework. The study concluded that the Faculty was a product of the historical context of Manaus' Belle Époque, fulfilling the ideals of an intellectual elite regarding the modernization of the Amazonian capital.