The article discusses four editions of the História Hoje Journal, which were under the editorship of Paulo Eduardo Dias de Mello, between 2017 to 2019s. The paper examines the text-context relationship of the political field and the area of History teaching; and identify in the texts the objects called “sensitive topics”. Many authors demonstrated strong discomfort with public policies and institutional changes promoted by the federal government after the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff, as well as it can be noted that the area of History teaching cried out for strategies to face the setbacks in the educational field, more evident in the spheres of the relations of democracy and freedom of education and in the policies of ethnic-racial reparation. Finally, the analysis of “sensitive topics” shows the issues with the past of dictatorships in Brazil is still a very weak point in the teaching of history.