South of Rome–West of Ellis Island
August 6, 2012
Joseph F. Privitera: Creative Sicilian Language Teacher...Towards a Southern-Italian American Curriculum
The history of near seventeen million Americans of southern-Italian descent (repeatedly documented on this site) is non-existent in the American education system from middle...
July 27, 2012
Hannibal Winters his army in Southern-Italian city Capua – Implications for the Obese American Military confronting Iran
Roman Soldier and Obese American Soldier
History is about IDEAS. Living Ideas!
July 15, 2012
Does the Italian American Writers Association celebrate ANY writer with an Italian last name e.g. Kristine Gasbarre?
The Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) states: “Our Mission [is] to promote Italian American literature by encouraging the writing, reading, publication, distribution,...
July 6, 2012
Southern-Italian Americans and the 99% vs. 1% American Class Dichotomy
“A picture is worth a thousand words”
Clearly, the accompanying picture captures the reality of the class character of American’s current political economy; i.e. great masses of people who had no say in...
June 29, 2012
“Southern Italy: After Rome...Before the Normans” – a history course based on the brilliant books of Kreuts and Skinner
The outrageously insulting (to southern-Italian Americans) and intellectually wanting failure of Italian and Italian American Studies programs to provide a history of southern...
June 25, 2012
Antiquated Renaissance City-States built walls around their cities, while Southern Italy led Europe into nation-state era
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Scholar ‘par excellence’ Barbara M. Kreutz writes: “Southern Italy has been largely ignored by most non-Italian historians of medieval Europe…they typically glance south...
June 23, 2012
Mario Monti – On his feet before God, On his knees before Germany, On the Backs of Workers
There is no end to the ways that the rich and powerful can con workers out of their money. And the professional biography of Mario Monti documents his impeccably unblemished...
June 20, 2012
The Vatican, American Nuns and southern-Italian Americana
No single institution is more closely associated with the history and culture of Italians south of Rome and west of Ellis Island than the Catholic Church. Christianity born in...
June 7, 2012
“Cosmopolis” (novel) –Don DeLillo a Theater of the Absurd Existentialist, nevertheless a Bronx southern-Italian American
“What are you doing Saturday night?
May 21, 2012
‘Forget-about’ Manzoni’s novel for an HBO Series ... Sing “Goat-Songs” of the South – Lampedusa and Domini
There is a de facto Gramsci-esque northern-Italian cultural conspiracy being perpetrated against Americans of southern-Italian descent by American university Italian Studies and...
April 20, 2012
Sicily and the “Clash of Civilizations” - Why Greco-Roman...Why NOT Etruscan-Roman or Phoenician-Roman Civilization?
'Phoenicians Bartering with Ancient Britons' / ‘Victorious Youth’ 300-100 BC
There are no “History Cycles” – Just the ‘Same-O’ ‘Same-O’!
April 3, 2012
From “Godfather to “Mama’s Boys” – The ever degenerating southern-Italian American media image. So who cares?
There is a clear pattern of increasingly negative dramatic images of southern-Italian Americans in American media from the 1970s Godfather movie to the current reality shows. It...
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