While the story of the 40,000 or 50,000 foreign volunteers for the Spanish Republic during the civil war of 1936-1939 has been told often and generally with sympathy, that of the smaller number who ...

America went to war against Spain to free Cuba from Spanish domination. But the war provided the United States an opportunity ...

José Luis Aliseda fled the Spanish Civil War as a child and later served in Vietnam before relocating to McAllen, Texas.

It’s unadulterated nationalism. In a 1942 essay written during the middle of World War II and reflecting on his experiences ...

George Orwell, who wrote about war, totalitarianism, nationalism and patriotism in the 1940s, would have had a lot to say ...

This book presents an original new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, prior to the events that produced World War II – the Spanish Civil War. It describes the ...

In 1936, he led troops against Spain’s democratically elected government igniting the Spanish Civil War which lasted until his Nationalist forces assumed power in 1939. Spain was aligned with ...

Following his victory at Manila Bay, Commodore George Dewey became an overnight sensation in the United States. His picture appeared everywhere, and young people, like those seen here, honored and ...

Growing up the son of Basque immigrants in rural California, Julian Zabalbeascoa mostly connected his family’s heritage to ...

One of the town’s museums hosted an event for the first time to remember heroes of a piece of “forgotten history”.