Università Roma Tre

The course includes a manual section, which aims to offer an exhaustive picture of political-institutional, socio-economic and communicative-media transformations in the historical processes that have marked the last two centuries, between 1848 and the present time, with attention to the roots of modernity in the nineteenth century and to the challenges of the twenty-first century. Priority is given to the processes of global interaction and interdependence, placing European history in a global geo-political context and Italian history itself in a transnational perspective.
The course also develops thematic paths that allow to enhance the role of the sources (archival, written, oral, audio-visual, online) in "making history". A first path concerns the emergence of a culture and practices of "active citizenship", as a reflection of the values of the Republican Constitution. A second thematic path concerns the events and transformations of Civic Education in the school of the Republic, introduced in 1958 by Aldo Moro and recently returned to being of great actuality. A third path concerns the figure of the Presidents in the history of the Republic as agents of construction and diffusion of a civil pedagogy or an education in the culture of responsibility and social cohesion, from Luigi Einaudi to Sergio Mattarella.

The course focuses on the manual volume of Lucio Caracciolo and Adriano Roccucci,Storia contemporanea. Dal mondo europeo al mondo senza centro, Milan, Mondadori Education, 2017 [Isbn: 978-88-00-74473-7].
The following in-depth text is the following: Giuseppe Cotturri, Romanzo popolare. Costituzione e cittadini nell’Italia repubblicana, Rome, Castelvecchi, 2019, pp. 266 [ISBN: 978-88-3282-613-5].