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

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 ...

The soldiers "wretched children" of this "comic ... He saw enough to realize that the Spanish Civil War was a rehearsal that it was no war of "the people" against the Fascists, but a war of ...

The Spanish Civil War is often seen as 'the first battle of ... including creating the International Brigade of mainly volunteer soldiers from across the world. These travelled to Spain to support ...

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

In 1936, he led troops against Spain’s democratically elected government igniting the Spanish Civil War which lasted until his Nationalist forces assumed power in 1939. Spain was aligned with ...

New Market Heights is just a small part of the history of black soldiers’ valor during America’s wars, but no Civil War battle has a more compelling claim to a place in that history.

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 ...