Sylvia Welch THHP 2011J Hunter College-CUNY Prof. Hernandez-Ojeda Virginia Malbin Personal Statement In the fall semester of 2020, I enrolled in a course on the Spanish Civil War. Prior to this class, I didn’t know anything about this period of history. Throughout the semester, our class engaged with riveting and emotional works of art, literature, and film that taught us about this captivating period of time. We learned about the struggles against fascism, nationalist and republican propaganda, and how the war had enormous effects that rippled through individual lives, communities, and countries. As a cumulative final project we were assigned to study the life of an Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteer. …