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Celebrate Your Italian Heritage with Thirty-One Days of Italians
What do Barnes & Noble, Mount Rushmore, Mr. Peanut, Subway, Tropicana, and the Zamboni have in common? All are iconic…
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Italy, as Told by Shakespeare
What made Italy the land of numerous plays by Shakespeare? Approximately one-third of his plays take place on the peninsula.…
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Italian Realism
L’articolo parla di Luigi Capuano, uno scrittore italiano. Capuano è conosciuto anche per il suo libro scritto nel 1902, “Delitto…
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The Legacy of Two Remarkable Men
In the early 1850s, a cottage in Staten Island, NY, became the home of an inventor and a revolutionist. Both…
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Finding Culture in Art
In viewing exhibits at Italian American museums throughout the U.S., visitors can learn about the often-unacknowledged history of Italian immigrants…
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Make it a Movie (Part II)
Italian American history is fascinating, but little is taught about the path Italian immigrants traveled as they became Italian Americans.…
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Make It a Movie
Molte persone preferiscono più i film e meno i libri. È per questa ragione l’autrice suggerisce quattro libri che sono…
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The Friendship Train
Several years after WWII, Western Europe was still recovering; and along with restoring economies, political dominance was also at stake.…
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From the Italian American Press: “Italians Swindled to New York”
Before the unification of Italy with Rome as its capitol in 1871, the immigrants who arrived in America were highly…
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Celebrate Your Italian Heritage with “Thirty-One Days of Italians”
Every year since 2007, “Thirty-One Days of Italians” has provided a list of accomplished Italian Americans and Italians to honor…
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