International co-operation on a scale unequaled since the Boxer Rebellion in China operated today to rescue beleaguered Americans and aliens of all nations trapped in Spain's civil war. Spanish ...

Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. At the time of the Civil War, as a result of lax laws, obtaining a medical degree was very easy; one only had to apprentice with a local physician and take a few ...

The Spanish Civil War was a conflict that pitted the Republican government against Spanish Nationalists led by General Francisco Franco from 1936-1939. Families were torn apart as people took sides.

Alfonso Domingo, co-director of the documentary “Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War”, explains the unknown work of the men who defended the rights denied to them in ...

Smithsonian Folkways is re-releasing its classic catalog of songs about the Spanish Civil War. Smithsonian Folkways Dinner at folk musician Tom Glazer's house usually ended with a singalong in ...

The British government did not want the Spanish Civil War to escalate into a Europe-wide conflict and so signed up to the Non-Intervention Committee. But for some in the British political ...

In 1938 long before he had written "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty four," George Orwell published an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War an account which was universally as ...