Nearly 80 years ago, about 2,800 Americans volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War. The war began in July 1936, when Gen. Francisco Franco led a fascist military coup against the the country's ...

From 1936-1939, Spain was wracked by a brutal civil war, sparked by a coup against its elected Second Republic. In the course of the conflict the rebelling Nationalist forces of General Francisco ...

The scholar Nathan Pinkoski, writing in The Claremont Review of Books, considers the take on the Spanish Civil War by the venerable historian of Spain, Stanley Payne. Excerpts: The Second Spanish ...

It is a distant conflict now, overshadowed by the two world wars that bookended it. But for a time in the late ’30s, the Spanish Civil War famously galvanized a generation of radicals, idealists, and ...

On Nov. 18, the Archdiocese of Seville will celebrate the beatification of 20 martyrs of the systematic religious persecution carried out during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. The 20 martyrs to be ...

A photograph of war reporters on the front line during the Spanish Civil War is frequently circulated with an erroneous caption claiming that famous authors Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell can both ...