The second volume of the scientific publication dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Ukrainian scientist, corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine F.P. Shevchenko, placed scientific studios mainly on the problems of Ukrainian history in the Middle Ages and modern times, which reflect the modern point of view on a number of important events of the past, violated certain problems of a methodological, source study and historiographic nature. A special section is devoted to historiographic assessments of the scientific and organizational activities of F.P. Shevchenko.