During the Spanish Civil War, powerful speeches urged the nation to remain united and resist at every level of society.

Dozens of volunteers have helped make the first cobbles for a monument to those who fought against fascism in the Spanish ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: If Britain and France wouldn’t lift a finger to help Spain in 1936, then why should they fight to save Czechoslovakia in 1938? No wonder Hitler expected the Western ...

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 ...

The martyrs to be beatified in the Seville cathedral on Nov. 18 include 10 priests, one seminarian and nine laypeople. All of them were killed out of hatred for the faith in 1936. Archbishop José ...

Before beginning to read off his prepared lecture notes, Vicente Sánchez-Biosca issued an unconventional warning to his audience. “Because this is translated, I may miss certain nuances in the ...

A Vatican cardinal beatified four martyrs of the Spanish Civil War on Saturday. Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, declared Francesco Cástor Sojo López ...

As the Spanish Civil War raged between 1936 and 1939, Republican forces took hold of thousands of paintings and sculptures, as well as other valuables, to safeguard them from the conflict. When the ...

Completed by Burnett Bolloten just before his death in 1987, "The Spanish Civil War" is the culmination of fifty years of dedicated and painstaking research. While Bolloten's earlier works -- "The ...

For years, Almodovar's films pretended the Franco years never happened. Now, he's on a mission to confront the past. When Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died in 1975, the horror of his regime was ...

The British novelist, best known for "1984" and "Animal Farm," published the thought in his 1938 Spanish Civil War memoir, ...