A foundation is digitizing the nearly 300 films that the Hearst Corporation recorded during the conflict and were shown in ...

He joined a military coup, fought ruthlessly in the Spanish Civil War, and emerged as the dictator of Spain. For almost 40 years, Franco worked to transform the country into a bastion of tradition.

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

PATERNA, Spain (Reuters) - Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by ...

Franco’s greatest contribution to contemporary art came in a perverse manner. In 1936, he led troops against Spain’s democratically elected government igniting the Spanish Civil War which ...

The polarising memory of the 1936-1939 civil war and Franco stems from the regime's tame demise, according to Joan Maria Thomas, professor of contemporary history at the University of Rovira i ...

The International Legion, in conjunction with NV, recently had a chance to sit down and speak with this Swedish volunteer.

The Spanish state on Thursday took ... More than half a million people died during the 1936-39 civil war and an estimated 150,000 were killed later by Franco's government, historians estimate.