History & culture
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...
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...