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 ...

Shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States in January 2017, George Orwell’s 1949 novel ...

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.

Clie published a Spanish translation of American historian Beth Allison Barr’s The Making of Biblical Womanhood, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Surviving Spanish flu ... of Spain's three-year civil war, he was herded into a concentration camp outside Madrid by soldiers from Gen Francisco Franco's victorious Nationalists.

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