This article deals with the interweaving between characteristics of the university formation in History, its school teaching and the fields of history of the History course and Public History, encouraging the analysis of the articulation between Public History and the history of the History course of the Federal University of Paraná. The History course at UFPR was consecrated by the strict incentive to academic research at the moment since the advent of graduate studies in the country in 1971. In the light of Public History and its current motivations, the article argues around the programmatic design of the UFPR History course, evaluating its disproportionate emphasis on research to the detriment of History teaching, leaving a legacy of distance from school and university, for whose analysis a view of historical knowledge seen in relation to other audiences points to the History course at UFPR as a counterexample of public history.