ALBA in the News

Find out about new research, what's happening with veterans of the Brigade, and how you can get involved with ALBA in your community or across the globe. To start, visit ALBA's online magazine, The Volunteer at www.alba-valb.org.

Here's what others are saying about us:

*Leonard Lopate, at WNYC, interviews Juan Salas and Jeanne Houck about Cartier-Bresson's With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, April 30th, 2010

* El País
El brigadista era cubano. [English translation here]
Natalia Junquera, March 1, 2010

* The Nation
La Despedida: A Lost Memoir of the Spanish Civil War
Dan Kaufman, August 31, 2009

* Associated Press
RI war vet, 93, honored with Spanish citizenship
Kelsey Abbruzzese, July 9, 2009

* Hispanic Information & Telecommunications Network and Asociación de las Televisiones Educativas y Culturales Iberoamericanas
Brigada Abraham Lincoln     
La Guerra Civil Española retratada por Franz Capa ocupa estos días el espacio en la Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, la sociedad histórica norteamericana que recoge el material legado por los norteamericanos que combatieron en el bando republicano.
June 20, 2009

* El País
La "maleta mexicana" de Capa arroja luz sobre el exilio español
Article about Capa's "Mexican Suitcase."
Barbara Celis, May 5, 2009

* New York Times
New Works by Photography's Old Masters
Article about the 2010 International Center of Photography's exhibition of newly discovered Capa, Seymour, and Taro photography of Spanish Civil War refugees.
Randy Kennedy, May 1, 2009

* National Public Radio, Morning Edition
Thousands of Children Stolen During Franco Rule
Jerome Socolovsky, April 1, 2009

* New York Times
Spain Looks Back at Dark Chapter of Adoptions
Associated Press, March 1, 2009
Historians say government archives show that the right-wing regime of Gen. Francisco Franco waged a campaign to take away children of their enemies, Republican prisoners, and sometimes stripped women of newborn babies. The goal was to educate the children to shy from leftist thought, embrace Roman Catholicism and support the regime.

* Internet Review of Books
When they're not shooting at you...
Rebeca Schiller, February 2009
Review of War is Beautiful. 

* Military History Magazine
For Whom the Ambulance Rolls
Excerpts from War is Beautiful by James Neugass. Published February/March 2009.

*Demockracy.com
The Legends Win in the End
Tom Gallagher, January 19, 2009
On a rainy Saturday afternoon this past November, San Francisco said its final goodbye to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Or at least it said goodbye to the one veteran of the brigade who could make it – the hundred-year-old Hilda Roberts, one of about sixty American women who served the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War.

* New York Times
Spain Offers Citizenship to Exiles’ Kin
Rachel Donadio, December 29, 2008
The descendants of those exiled from Spain during the Spanish Civil War and the fascist dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco may claim Spanish citizenship under legislation that went into effect over the weekend.

* Berkeley Daily Planet
Taps for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Don Santina, November 20, 2008
There were about a hundred veterans left in August 2000 when the late San Francisco supervisor, Sue Bierman, introduced a resolution to the board to honor the Abraham Lincoln Brigade with a monument on the waterfront....Eight years later, on Sunday, March 30, 2008, the first American government-sanctioned monument to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade was dedicated with much fanfare on San Francisco’s Embarcadero.

* New York Times
Papa’s Gift to the Fire-in-the-Belly Crowd
David Margolick, November 1, 2008
Robert Jordan is the hero of Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, an American fighting Franco’s Fascists in the Spanish Civil War. And despite his radical roots, he’s a literary sensation during this election season. Senator Barack Obama told Rolling Stone that Hemingway’s novel, published in 1940, is one of the three books that most inspired him. As for Senator John McCain, few men, real or fictional, have influenced him as much as Jordan...

* New York Observer
Papa, Mac, and Barack
Dan Kaufman, July 29, 2008
Lincoln Vets George Sossenko and Matti Mattson weigh in on Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls being McCain and Obama's favorite book.

* Democracy Now! 
Review of Fighting Fascism: The Americans - Women and Men - Who Fought  In the Spanish Civil War
Monday, April 30, 2007

* New York Times 
Review of Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War
Edward Rothstein, March 24, 2007

* Village Voice
War and Remembrance: Children Draw the Battle Zone
Review of They Still Draw Pictures
Carol Cooper, March 23, 2004