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The Abraham Lincoln Brigade: the Historiography of the American soldiers in the Spanish American War
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===Early Books on the The Abraham Lincoln Brigadeignored by general histories of the war===
Peter N. Carroll, in his book <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804722773/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0804722773&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=deb544037f6853d805f0f8cea67fedee The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade]</i>, stated that there had already been three generations of history written about the Lincoln Brigade by 1994. The first generation consisted of a number of first person accounts by the Brigade members. A second generation of books was written by scholars based on somewhat limited information. Carroll believes that he is part of the third generation of historians who were providing a more accurate depiction of the volunteers because he had access to a treasure trove of material from both the veterans and Soviet archives. As part of the third generation of scholars, Carroll not only tried to tell the story of veterans in Spain, he examined their broader roles in America over the past 50 years. Not surprisingly, this third generation of books has benefited greatly from the creation of archives by the Brigade veterans at Brandeis University and University of California, Berkley.<ref> Carroll, Peter N., <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804722773/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0804722773&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=deb544037f6853d805f0f8cea67fedee The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: American in the Spanish Civil War]</i>, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California 1994, p. vii-x.</ref>
[[File:The_Battle_for_Spain.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px|<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014303765X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=014303765X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=532d4ab27591ac134752fae66650b9ac The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939]</i> by Anthony Beevor]]
===Beyond Carroll===
[[File:The_Good_Fight_Continues.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|<i>The Good Fight Continues</i>]]One of the sharpest criticisms of Odyssey was made in the collection of essays entitled written by John Earl Haynes an Harvey Klehr <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159403088X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=159403088X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=8ed06cae78edd741816c6c45c8372b6c In Denial: Historians, Communism & Espionage]</i>. Two of the essays in the collection accused Carroll of scholarly malpractice for suggesting that the term “premature anti-fascists” was used by the government to classify veterans of the Lincoln Brigade pejoratively. John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr instead argued that the term was adopted by veterans of the Lincoln Brigade as a badge of honor. Carroll fights back in the Lincoln Brigade newsletter stating that Congressional Representative John Coffee in 1945 indicated in a speech that people in Washington had referred to members of the Lincoln Brigade as “premature anit-fascists.” <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814716601/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0814716601&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c> Carroll, Peter, “A Premature Anti-20&linkId=786065cef71742ae630f60c3272fec5c"Fascists Again” <i>The Good Fight Continues: World War II Letters From the Abraham Lincoln BrigadeVolunteer</ai><img src="//ir-na, Vol.XXV, no. 4 (2003), p.amazon5-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=dailyh0c6, 8-20&l=am2&o=1&a=0814716601" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" 9</ref>
In addition to Carroll’s <i>Odyssey</i>, the Lincoln Brigade archives have spawned additional books. <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814716601/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0814716601&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=786065cef71742ae630f60c3272fec5c The Good Fight Continues:World War II Letters from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade]</i> edited by Peter M. Carroll, Micahael Wash and Melvin Small and <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0816173788/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0816173788&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=b4ede868a2a590d4c40fb5749250051f African Americans in the Spanish Civil War:"This Ain't Ethiopia, but it will do."]</i> edited by Danny Duncan Collum contain a number of primary sources from the Lincoln Brigade archives along with a number of interpretative articles. <i>The Good Fight Continues</i> is a collection of letters from Lincoln Brigade veterans during World War II. These letters express a number emotions and feelings. A number of the Brigade members’ were frustrated at being denied combat positions. Still, a number of the veterans did serve in combat and these letters share their experiences. Some of the letters address problems that Brigade members faced in the immediate post-World War II period.
<i>African Americans in the Spanish Civil War </i> explores the stories of the 90 African Americans who served in the Lincoln Brigade. This volume includes first person essays by some of the veterans and an article by Robin D. G. Kelly describing the reasons why several African American men and women fought in Spain. Kelly argues that most of the African American men and women who served were committed Communists who had both an internationalist outlook and a militant race-conscious nationalism. Collum makes it clear that his book is relevant because the motivations between white and black veterans differed.<ref> Collum, Danny Duncan, eds. <i>African Americans in the Spanish Civil War: “This Ain’t Ethiopia, But It’ll Do”</i>, p. 9.</ref> The differences in motivations made it critical to highlight these differences.
===Conclusion===
===Bibliography===
Bessie, Alvah and Albert Pargo eds., "Our Fight: Writings by Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Spain 1936 -1939, " <i>Monthly Review Press</i>, 1987. Carroll, Peter, “A Premature Anti-Fascists Again” The Volunteer, Vol.XXV, no. 4 (2003)
Carroll, Peter, eds., “A Premature Anti-Fascists Again” <i>The Good Fight Continues: World War II Letters from the Abraham Lincoln BrigadeVolunteer</i>, New York University PressVol.XXV, 2006no.4 (2003)
Carroll, Peter, eds., <i>The Odyssey of Good Fight Continues: World War II Letters from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade</i>, Stanford New York University Press, 19942006.
Danny Duncan Collum’s Collum. <i>African Americans in the Spanish Civil War: “This Ain’t Ethiopia, But It’ll Do.” </i> G.K. Hall & Co., 1992.
Landis, Arthur, <i>The Abraham Lincoln Brigade</i>, Lyle Stuart Harrdcover Hardcover (1967.)
Lucid, Robert, “In Our Time: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the Historians,” <i>American Quarterly</i>, vol. 22, no. 1, 1970.
Payne, Stanley, “Review of The Abraham Lincoln Brigade,” <i>The American Historical Review</i>, vol 73, no. 1, 1967.
Rosenstone, Richard, <i>Crusade of the Left: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War</i>, Pegasus, 1969.
Rosenstone, Richard, “The Men of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade” <i>Journal of American History</i>, Vol. 54, No. 2, 1967.
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