The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Smithsonian Folkways is re-releasing its classic catalog of songs about the Spanish Civil War. Smithsonian Folkways Dinner at folk musician Tom Glazer's house usually ended with a singalong in ...

African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War”, explains the unknown work of the men who defended the rights denied to them in their own country. James Yates was an African-American who decided to ...

Troops on the march, Spanish American War. Artist Glackens ... president Roosevelt to "effect the transition from military to civil government." After a contentious year in which the two jockeyed ...

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 ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

Frasier responds, "Spanish – but I haven't got time to ... There were an estimated 1.5 million casualties reported during the ...