This paper addresses a re-reading of the Farroupilha War (1835-1845) at IHGB from the 1920’s to the
celebration of the conflict centenary in 1935, which ended up integrating it into the national historical
memory. In this process, discursive and institutional strategies were triggered, regarding the political
use of the past, the historiographical tradition of IHGB and the constructed intellectual legitimacies.
