The past in discord. Miguel Antonio Caro and José María Quijano, 1872

Abstract

This article discusses the controversy over the celebration of July 20 as a national festival of the independence of Colombia. That controversy elucidates issues related to homeland history, interpretations of the past, the ideological struggles in the selection of events and narration. We are looking for showing how in the 1870's the homeland history was a lively and central knowledge in the formation of citizenship and of the Republic.