ABSTRACT
The pandemic crisis has sparked the desire of many citizens to narrate the past. These approaches will be stories built from personal or collective testimonies, told by historians but also by citizens. But professional history could try to reappropriate the power to tell the truth. And if citizens are not careful, they will return to the space of exclusion. The 2008 capitalist fraud and 2019 pandemic threat, with its long confinement, brought us new themes and, above all, brought forth the opportunity to socialise the interpretations of the past. These are the conditions for public history to come about.
