History & culture
History Reevaluated – It’s All Columbus’ Fault
September 2020 | Janice Therese Mancuso
Quest’articolo tratta della disinformazione sulla storia di Cristoforo Colombo. Ci sono molte persone che dicono che Colombo è responsabile per il genocidio di tanti nativi che già abitavano nella terra nuovo. Ma, quest’articolo smentisce questa...
NIAF Statement on Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day
September 2020 | La Gazzetta Italiana
NIAF supports Columbus Day and opposes public campaigns that advocate for its elimination as a federal holiday.
As an organization devoted to the promotion and preservation of Italian American heritage, we support unequivocally maintaining...
Christopher Columbus
September 2020 | William Giovinazzo
The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones. It is so easy to attack the dead, to misquote, to misrepresent motive, to manipulate the representation of past events. When the dead lack someone to speak for them...
Bella Ciao: Goodbye Beautiful
September 2020 | Diana Lucarino-Diekmann
Bella Ciao or “Goodbye Beautiful” is a 19th century Italian protest song that has its origin in the struggle of Italian women from the north of Italy who labored in the rice fields there.
The Mondina (from mondare, to clean) women worked in the...
La Sartoria Italiana in the Bespoke Tradition
September 2020 | Joanna Lucarino
L’autrice descrive la bellezza della sartoria italiana. Lei scrive che “la sprezzatura”, è un modo di cucire fatto con meno sforzo, è un’arte approfondita solo dai sarti migliori. Lei spiega la formazione di un vestito e come i sarti cominciano e...
Early Italian Immigrants: A Serviceable Ethnic Group
September 2020 | Ben Lariccia and Joe Tucciarone
In the fall of 1874, a little more than a year after Giovanni Chiesa’s brutal lynching at the end of the Coal Miners’ Strike in Trumbull County, OH, Italian immigrants again lost their lives during a labor dispute. Thousands of immigrants from...
It’s Complicated
August 2020 | Ben Lariccia
For me, with Columbus, it’s complicated. I have no problem with the removal of statues that memorialize treasonous Confederate generals or KKK leaders. Columbus shouldn’t be lumped in with those individuals. We’ve celebrated our rich heritage on...
Hon. Fucsia Fitzgerald Nissoli Presents to National Columbus Education Foundation
August 2020 | La Gazzetta Italiana
The Honorable Fucsia Fitzgerald Nissoli, who represents Italian citizens living in North and Central America in the Chamber of Deputies recently attended a meeting of the National Columbus Educational Foundation board to discuss strategies on how...
The Columbus Letters
August 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.”
On his return to Spain, sailing in January and February 528 years ago,...