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Abstract

This article is intended to make a reflection about the history as a pedagogical project of the Colombian state during the period from 1910 to 1950, this with the purpose of encourage a national identity feeling and country love in the population. In the first part of the article are exposed many manuals which had been used in the schools in order to teach the official history; these created according to the interests of the state, a collective national imaginary. Also, it is offered an overlook to the legislation which was used to impose those text inside the classrooms. In the second part of the article, it is shown how the apologetic history offered by the manuals was taken to the public squares, institutions and streets, in form of national parties and collective celebrations.