More than 500,000 people died in the 1936-1939 war between rebel nationalist forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and defenders of the short-lived Spanish republic. Franco declared victory on April ...

Y’all know that I am a big advocate of studying the Spanish Civil War, looking for insights about where we in the US might — might — be headed, and how we can avoid Spain’s fate. If you ...

The recently proposed Spanish bill, “Democratic Memory,” was originally meant to enable the Spanish Supreme Court to investigate the violation of human rights during the Civil War of 1936-39 ...

27 Dominican Martyrs of Spanish Civil War to Be Beatified in June Although the beatification was approved by Pope Francis in December 2019, due to the coronavirus pandemic, it had to be postponed.

The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from 1936 to 1939, took the lives of up to 1 million people, and ended with the Nationalist party as the victor after capturing Madrid.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War. In Spain, there are no official commemoration ceremonies. That's in keeping with the silence with which Spaniards have ...

A Spanish and Korean sign at Ox Hill Battlefield Park, not only connects current residents, it also honors non-native-speaking Civil War soldiers.

Ángeles Flórez Peón, memory keeper of Spanish Civil War, dies at 105 She aided leftist guerrillas as a teenager in the 1930s and then led political resistance from self-exile against the ...

He rarely discussed his Spanish Civil War experience until shortly before his death when he passed on his mementos. Among the documents, his son found a moving four-page eulogy titled, “A Negro ...