On Twitter, Adam James Smith has started an every-Friday #ReadQuixote trend where people read Don Quixote chapter by chapter every week of the year (DQ has 52 chapters). I picked up Don Quixote at a thrift shop in Philly years ago, not too far from the Don Quixote statue Spain donated to the City of …
I’ve written before about the Camino de Santiago, which is the journey thousands of pilgrims take every year to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Especially now, it feels like such journeys that build humanity are more important than ever. And even though we can’t all walk the Camino, one can join the peregrino community through the …
We are looking at the Spanish Civil War in my 20th Century History Class and it still seems remarkable to me that Franco remained in power and pivoted to an internationally respected (or at least tolerated) status. Here is a conversation I had with an expert on Spain on the Hour of History Podcast: