History & culture
Norcia Multi-Purpose Community Center Now Open
October 2020 | La Gazzetta Italiana
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is pleased to announce that Norcia’s new multi-purpose community center, a central component of the relief effort led by the Foundation in response to the devastating earthquakes that struck Central...
100 Years of the Italian Welfare League
October 2020 | Barry Moreno
The Italian Welfare League traces its beginnings to the resettlement work of the American Red Cross’s Italian Committee at the end of the First World War. At the time, thousands of Italians had just returned to their American homes after having...
Zoom to Umbria – This Saturday!
October 2020 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Quest’intervista è con Anne Robichaud del giornale “La Gazzetta”. Anne è una guida autorizzata in Umbria e offre i tour per i turisti. Con COVID-19, lei non può né viaggiare in Italia né lavorare in Umbria. Con l'eliminazione dei viaggi in...
Celebrate Your Italian Heritage with “Thirty-One Days of Italians”
October 2020 | Janice Therese Mancuso
Pick a name, any name on the list of “Thirty-One Days of Italians”, and you will be amazed to learn how the accomplishments by people of Italian heritage have been integrated into the culture of everyday life in America.
Filippo Mazzei was a...
Justice Denied: Ben Shahn and the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
October 2020 | David Gariff
“If it had not been for these things, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life...
Early Italians Arriving at Ellis Island Needed Help
October 2020 | Al Bruno
More than 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954. With a peak of 1,004,756 entering the U.S. in 1907 alone, most were Italians. In fact, most Italian immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in 1907 were processed in a...
The Columbus Letters
October 2020 | Janice Therese Mancuso
Quando Cristoforo Colombo iniziò il suo primo viaggio verso ovest, iniziò a scrivere un giornale che includeva molte informazioni del viaggio. Quando tornò in Spagna, scrisse anche altre lettere. Purtroppo, le lettere furono tradotte e riscritte,...
The Prosecution of Christopher Columbus
October 2020 | William Giovinazzo
In my previous article, I discussed the man Christopher Columbus, details of who he was that are often overlooked by his detractors. In this article, I would like to review the chief accusation against him which was his involvement in the slave...
The Columbus Letters
September 2020 | Janice Therese Mancuso
“The Columbus Letters” were published in a four-part series in La Gazzetta Italiana in 2019 and can be found on www.lagazzettaitaliana.com. Search “Columbus Letters.”
Sailing back to Spain after his first voyage for the monarchs, Columbus wrote...
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