The Republic of 1931 was full of good intentions and, as we also say in Spanish, the road to its inferno was paved with them. The errors of its leaders, both of Left and Right, were so very serious ...

T he Francisco Franco dictatorship in Spain lasted almost 40 years, from his military invasion of the Second Spanish Republic in 1936 and three years of civil war to his death in the fall of 1975 ...

There in July 1873, in the fifth month of the first Spanish Republic, a group of revolutionaries hoisted the red flag. Because they could not find a pure red one they used the flag of Turkey, ...

Steer's report shocked Picasso, who had been commissioned by the Spanish Republic to make a display for the World's Fair in Paris. He abandoned his previous plans and painted Guernica within a few ...

Glazer wrote his Spanish Civil War songs in the 1930s and '40s and recorded them in the 1960s. On October 14, Smithsonian Folkways will re-release those recordings on a two-volume set of 24 tracks ...