The association “Liberté pour l’Histoire” (“Freedom for History”) has been formed, in 2005, under the chairmanship of Pr René Rémond, following an appeal signed by a thousand historians.

Moved by unremitting political interventions in the assessment of events of the past and by legal proceedings against historians and thinkers, they intended to remind that history is neither a religion nor a moral doctrine; that it should not be enslaved to current affairs, nor be dictated by memory. “Liberté pour l’Histoire” has thus set itself the task to let acknowledged the scientific dimension of historical research and teaching and to defend the freedom of expression of the historians against political interventions and ideological pressures of any nature and origin.

This mission, and the mobilization of the historians that carries it, have reached an international dimension in april, 2007, with the project of a framework-decision by the Council of the European Union on the fight against racism and xenophobia. This project, on behalf of a rightful fight against racism and anti-Semitism, punishes, in all the states of the Union, the “public apology, the negation or the crude banalization of genocide, crime against humanity, and crime of war”.

René Rémond	Pierre Nora	Françoise Chandernagor
Founder of LPH, deceased in 2007	Chairman	Vice-chairman

Board :

Jean-Pierre Azéma, Jean-Jacques Becker, Jean-Claude Casanova, Françoise Chandernagor, Christian Delporte, Valérie Hannin, Jean-Noël Jeanneney, Pierre Nora, Mona Ozouf, Krzysztof Pomian, Olivier Salvatori, Hubert Tison, Maurice Vaïsse, Michel Winock.