Spain

Javier Benedet’s Spanish Civil War Collection

The recently acquired Javier Benedet collection contains significant materials relating to the Spanish Civil War and to fundraising efforts in Northern California on behalf of the Republican side in that conflict. The Benedet papers also provide documentation on the plight of Republican refugees in the aftermath of the Civil War and on the political life of the Spanish anti-fascist diaspora in France, Mexico, and other countries. In terms of volume, the Benedet papers now constitute the second largest collection (after the Burnett Bolloten papers) in the archives pertaining to the Spanish Civil War.

Herbert Klein named Catedra d'Excelencia at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona, Spain

Herbert Klein is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and Gouverneur Morris Emeritus Professor of History at Columbia University. He was recently named Catedra d'Excelencia at URV for 2011.

The Spanish Speakers in the United States: A History By Peter J. Duignan and the late L. H. Gann