Albert Prago Audio Collection 1981-1982

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Albert Prago Audio Collection 1981-1982

Albert Prago (1911-1993) was a scholar of Latin American history and Marxist economics, a college teacher and a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. After being wounded in Spain, he returned to the United States in 1938, and pursued a career in teaching and research. He published several books and articles on labor history, Latin-American history and the Spanish Civil War, earned a Ph.D. in history in 1976, and co-edited the 1987 anthology with fellow Lincoln Brigade veteran Alvah Bessie. The collection consists of 16 audiocasettes, featuring talks by several Lincoln Brigade veterans and prominent progressives (including Pete Seeger) created when Prago taught a course on the Spanish Civil War at the New School in New York City in 1981, as well as two cassettes documenting a 1982 radio program featuring Prago, several other veterans and Seeger. Our Fight

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