Franklin, the Penn Library's online catalog, lists more than four million books, journal titles, and other materials contained in campus libraries. Note: The Biddle Law Library has its own completely separate catalog, LOLA.
You can search Franklin by author, title, journal title, subject, or keyword. For information on searching, consult Franklin Search Help.
Keyword: Use keyword searching to combine concepts (X AND Y) and to search for particular words or phrases that might appear in titles or notes or subjects:
Subject: The keyword searches above result in different numbers of books and other publications (note under the "Format" filter on the left of each set of search results, one can limit the results to "Book," "Video," "Government document," etc.). As one goes through each of the results, it will become clear that some Library of Congress subject headings are used frequently in books and other publications about the Spanish Civil War. The most common is the subject heading that begins Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 . To see the Civil War in a wider context there are broader subject headings starting with Spain -- History, or, slightly more restricted, Spain -- History -- 20th century. A few other relevant subject headings are listed below.
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Note that in some of the subject headings there is a subheading "Sources," which usually indicates a work that is a collection of historical documents, or primary sources. Primary sources, however, are not found exclusively under that subheading. The subheading "Personal narratives" can also indicate primary sources in the voices of participants in historical events. Memoirs and autobiographies by historical figures also count as primary sources. It is worth noting that there are a number of non-book items that clearly qualify as primary sources. For the Spanish Civil War, the most notable is Guerra Civil Espanola, an online collection of digitized documents, which the library also holds in microformat. It "reproduces pamphlets documenting the Spanish Republican period (1931-1939), the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and the post-War era of Franco's rule (1939-1975). Includes publications of political parties, eyewitness accounts, written and pictorial works, poetry and prose, and patriotic songs and hymns." They include languages other than Spanish and items originating from other parts of Europe, Latin America, and the Philippines. The original approximately 3,000 pamphlets are housed in the Herbert Rutledge Southworth collection, University of California, San Diego Library.
The library also holds a number of videos known as No-Do (Noticiarios y Documentales), cinema newsreels produced by the Francoist bureaucracy between 1943 and 1981. There are 19 videos in the Los años del NO-DO series, with selections from newsreels covering 1939 through 1977. In addition, there are another two titles that include NO-DO newsreel footage. Besides, there are both dramatic and documentary films that result from the keyword search spain history civil war with the "Video" filter applied.
