Rafael Altamira. La enseñanza de la historia y la conciliación internacional

In the first years following World War I, the International Committee of Historical Sciences, American philantropic organizations, and intellectual cooperation forums became interested in teaching history. The culture of reconciliation emerged as an unavoidable condition to strengthen peace and shape the international mind as an existential yearning for intellectual cooperation. The concern for educational texts, teaching methods, and historiographical research itself captured the attention of experts in international studies working within the Organization for International Cooperation. Along the way, they would eventually meet with the corporate circles of historiography and end up converging at the International Conference on the Teaching of History at the beginning of the 1930s, in which Rafael Altamira would play an essential role in the staging