During the last decade, recent history, seen as an historical perspective, has had an important development in Latin America, especially in countries like Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and, to a lesser extent, Chile. However, over the last years, the interest to study this is on increase, particularly the topics related to the civic-military dictatorship and the transition process to democracy. The new political history has made a major contribution to it. The present article seeks to characterize the recent history in Chile, paying special attention to contributions made from a new political history. Investigation about political parties and political culture is an example of this.