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Subjective well-being is a theme which analyzes how people evaluate satisfaction in life, taking into account personal aspects, experience, values and expectations. Current paper identifies subjective welfare and autonomy in home-office of university professors during the COVID-19 pandemic through a transversal study and quantitative approach. A sample of fifty-four university professors from a university in southern Brazil was generated by applying the Subjective Welfare Scale by Albuquerque and Tróccoli (2004), divided into positive and negative aspects, satisfaction with life, to which was added a dimension called autonomy in home-office during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results show that most professors (68.51%) showed a moderate subjective wellbeing, with negative aspects higher than the positive ones, or rather, 16.66% and 14.81%, respectively. High autonomy in home-office with 66.67% of replies has been reported. Results are satisfactory since, even though negative aspects are more present than the positive ones in subjective well-being, the professors are committed and try to perform their activities in the best way possible. This is a determining factor for institutions which are trying to make adaptations since people are the most important active goods of the organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to investigate the establishment of a field of academic history in Brazil, by means of USP’s Revista de História, founded in 1950. Through the contents of the 1950’s issues we identify, in the publication, a period of closeness between professionals coming from the IHGSP and others from the university itself. That points to a transition period between a so-called traditional history and a new professional history in Brazil, already during the 1950’s. It is also possible to sort out the traditional periods of the relationship between the Annales and the so called USP school of History, through the analyses of elements that accompany texts published by French historians and some others published by professors such as Eurípedes Simões de Paula, Eduardo d’Oliveira França and Astrogildo Rodrigues de Mello. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]