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

It only took 20 years to build the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, but this church has been in construction since 1882 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You know what the real circus is? This country!” ...

On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

As war broke out in Spain in the 1930s, to many in Lancashire it would have sounded like news from another world. To others, it was a calling. The Spanish Civil War is often seen as 'the first ...

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.

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Perhaps the most enduring legacy of the Spanish Civil War is its iconic images. We have Pablo Picasso’s haunting painting of the ...