In Spain, in February of 1936, conservative military officials along with fascists began a bloody three year civil war with defenders of the republic. Each of these defenders of the republic had diff...
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Juliana Sanchez passes a trembling hand in the air above the cracked and crumbling skeletons in the dry earth at her feet, her eyes moist and her voice quavering.One of these sets of bones — ...
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Vatican City (dpa) - The Vatican in a move which has provoked
controversy in Spain, on Sunday beatified 498 Catholics killed by
anti-clerical leftists during the 1936-39 Spa...
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Madrid (dpa) - Politically based-sentences handed out by tribunals
during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and the subsequent
dictatorship of General Francisco Franco may be ...
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Madrid (dpa) - The family of Spain's late dictator Francisco
Franco is engaged in a row with the north-western region of Galicia
over the use of an imposing palace which the...
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The following is a translation of a letter from death row by Vicente Sanchez to his brother, Eladio, during the Spanish Civil War. His daughter, Juliana, provided The Associated Press with a copy._...
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VATICAN CITY, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The beatification of 498
Catholics killed during the Spanish Civil war was not
politically motivated, the Vatican's number two said on Monday. Cardinal Tarcisio Be...
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Question 1 of 10:She was to become one
America
's best-known critics, but how did
Dorothy
first make a living?A fashion model
A pianist
A nannyA secretaryQuestion 2 of 10:The first of many trage...
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National Security: Leftist academics are determined to rehabilitate the reputation of Alger Hiss, the high-level U.S. diplomat and Soviet spy. Time may have passed, but this case was settled a long...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A trove of long-lost iconic
images captured by famed war photographer Robert Capa has been
recovered and is being examined, cataloged and scanned at the
International Center o...
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It was not your typical V.F.W. reunion. First off, most of the war vets were Communists, either current or former, possibly Anarchists. (At least one could quote Bakunin.) Also, most of them had be...
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