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Antifascist Autobiography in Red-Baiting America: The Shifting Stories of Salaria Kea’s Life

August 16, 2025
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Antifascist Autobiography in Red-Baiting America: The Shifting Stories of Salaria Kea’s Life

On November 8, 1937, Salaria Kea, a 26-year-old African American nurse from Ohio, had been in Spain for seven months and one day. The country was in disarray. Half its territory was controlled by fascist rebels. Cities were being bombed, and civilians were killed by the thousands. Thousands more were forcibly displaced. But Kea...
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Book Review: Chim Seymour’s Humanist Gaze

August 18, 2022
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<em>Book Review:</em> Chim Seymour’s Humanist Gaze

Carole Naggar. David ‘Chim’ Seymour: Searching for the Light, 1911-1956. De Gruyter, 2022. 294 + x pp.
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Salaria Kea in the Archive

February 11, 2022
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Salaria Kea in the Archive

Salaria Kea, the only African American woman to serve in Spain, sailed from New York City with the second American Medical Unit on March 27, 1937, and returned to the United States in May 1938. To understand what her experience was like, we must rely on documents scattered through various archives. But archives are...
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From New York Chinatown to Spain: Wen-Rao Chen

May 2, 2020
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From New York Chinatown to Spain: Wen-Rao Chen

Twenty-five years ago, Len and Nancy Tsou made a ten-day trip to Spain tracing some of the battlefields where Chinese brigadistas had fought in the Spanish Civil War. Among other sites, they followed the trail of a Lincoln vet, Wen-Rao Chen of the XVth International Brigade, who lost his life in the battle of...
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Loyalist Voices Crying Out across the Ocean: the EAQ Radio Broadcast during the Spanish Civil War

May 2, 2020
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Loyalist Voices Crying Out across the Ocean: the EAQ Radio Broadcast during the Spanish Civil War

In the spring of 1937, a group of English-speaking journalists and filmmakers launched a shortwave radio broadcast from Madrid to tell the world what was happening in Spain firsthand. It found an eager audience all across the United States and Canada.
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New Photos of the Chapaiev Battalion

June 11, 2015
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New Photos of the Chapaiev Battalion

An exhibit in Hamburg displays images of the Chapaiev Battalion taken by soldiers and Gerda Taro, from the collection of Alfred Kantorowicz and the ICP.
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Witness of the last day on the line: A biography of Harold Hoff

September 16, 2013
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Witness of the last day on the line: A biography of Harold Hoff

Harold Smith Hoff was born in Kansas in 1906 and moved with dust-bowl refugees to El Centro California with his father, a Church of the Brethren Elder. In 1920, the family gave up farming and moved to Glendora CA. Harold attended Citrus Union High School and had one year of college at LaVerne College...
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US cinema and the Popular Front: Spain as common cause

September 14, 2013
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US cinema and the Popular Front: Spain as common cause

On July 25, 1937, the New York Times’ John T. McManus interviewed Joris Ivens, a young Dutch movie director who had just arrived in the United States. What sparked the interview was the premiere of The Spanish Earth, a documentary about the Spanish Civil War financed by a handful of American intellectuals that included...
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Réquiem por la última imagen

June 20, 2013
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Réquiem por la última imagen

“This is the most photogenic war anyone ever has seen.”* Estas palabras transcritas por Claud Cockburn carecían, en plena guerra civil, de perspectiva, mas no de perspicacia. Cierta magia hubo en esta contienda que la convirtió en epifanía de un nuevo tipo de conflicto bélico: violento y despiadado para una población civil que fotógrafos,...
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Film Screening in Madrid: “With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain”

October 12, 2012
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Film Screening in Madrid: “With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain”

Screening at El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid Spain 10/15, 7 p.m. Film Series: The cinema of the 1930s. Blue Flowers in a Catastrophic Landscape Selection: The Spanish Civil War through the Eyes of Others Film: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain, Henri Cartier-Bresson & Herbert Kline. 1938, 16 mm, 21’....
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