Emmaline Bennett is Columbia University graduate with a bachelor's degree in History and Comparative Literature & Society and a Columbia Teachers College graduate with a Master's degree in Social Studies Education. Emmaline is a World History teacher and have done extensive research on war and refugees with her theses, "Cities of Defeat: Spanish Civil War Refugees and the French Concentration Camps of 1939", which won the Columbia History department's Charles A. Beard Prize as well as the George Watt Prize. In this episode, Emmaline talks about the politics and ideologies behind governments’ positions behind the Spanish Civil War and World War II. She also encourages our listeners to appreciate oral history and historical fiction to gain a fuller picture of each period.