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This paper develops a comparative study of teaching the Cold War theme in Western Europe, Northern Europe and Eastern Europe between the 1980s and 1990s, through the analysis of History Textbooks and, where possible, the Syllabus. Through this analysis, we carried out a thematic study of the contents of the Cold War, and a critical review of views on the Cold War period. For the theoretical framework, the nature of Historical Science and its impact on the teaching of history was considered; the process of formation of an historical consciousness; the importance of history in shaping the individual; an approach to the most recent studies of the Cold War and the state of the art of research in school textbooks. The research reveals how the development of content about the Cold War was evolving in divergent perspectives in various countries in Europe and with significant alterations between the decades of the 1980s and 1990s.Conclusions were drawn about the different uses of history, from cultural representations as well as historical and geopolitical of the referred to geographic areas of Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Privileging particularly historiographic approaches, this paper aims to present a bibliographical survey and an overview of the most representative works published in the area of the history of cancer, a subject that is integrated in the wider sphere of the history of health and biomedical sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The dolium or vase, as it is commonly called in our days, is in all probability on of most prevalent types of pottery in the history of ceramics in Portugal. It is also one of the least studied types at national level. The history of Roman ceramics in Portugal has essentially focused on high-quality, imported pottery, such as the sigillatae or amphorae, or on local productions representative of a certain area, such as the fine grey pottery. The dolia are usually considered in a class on their own. The remains found are often not studied, even when the archaeological digs yield a significant amount of these objects. This article results from a more extended study we have been developing, on the dolium type pieces of pottery found in the Douro valley and Beira Interior region, in archaeological settings dating from the 2nd to the 4th centuries. The work of Tony Silvino and Guillaume Mazza on the production structure of the dolia in Rumansil (Mós do Douro, Vila Nova de Foz Côa) is here taken as a starting point of analysis. In this paper, we present the preliminary results of the analysis of dolia fragments found at the town of Vale do Mouro, (Coriscada, Mêda), excavated between 2003 and 2010, which enabled the systematic survey and study of this type of pottery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]