This is a review article about historical evidences and new methodological proposals presented at the Congress Polish Historians in Olsztyn (2009), edited by Jolanta Kolbuszewska and Rałaf Stobiecki.

Glossa do artykułu: Idea Opatrzności a cykliczność dziejów – rozumna natura człowieka i możliwość reform politycznych w poglądach Stanisława Dunin-Karwickiego

The article is devoted to changes inside the methodology of oral history at the beginning of the century. New technologies are present in every area of life. It seems that continuous progress is inevitable. It is more and more diffi cult to imagine functioning without cell phones or e-mail. Digital Revolution has also become a reality in these areas, which until now seemed to be impregnable bastions. Last 20 years has brought many changes in this fi eld, particularly in the United States. As a perfect example author sees the oral history, which since its beginning within the American research practice, has always followed the new technologies. American model of practicing oral history in the most visible way, is constantly modifi ed considering its methodology, which opens up new unexplored research capabilities, which become a model in worldwide practice and refl ection dedicated to this method.

Article is a review of Maciej Bugajewski’s book Brzemię przeszłości. Zło jako przedmiot interpretacji historycznej

The conversation concerns mayor questions in the theory of historical writing, both raised or elaborated in Hayden White’s work. It focuses on the relation between history and its closest others: science and literature, as well as the issue of the function of history. Conversation includes the discussion of the concepts of fiction, figure, fulfillment, figurative and conceptual language, modernism.