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Stolen Christopher Columbus Letter Sails Home to Italy

Juidith Harris

Thanks to remarkable cooperation between investigators in Italy and the United States, a stolen copy of a letter Christopher Columbus wrote in 1493 describing his discovery of...

Colorado Rejects Bill to Abolish Columbus Day as State Holiday

The National Italian American Foundation commends the Colorado House State, Veterans and Military Committee’s recent vote of seven to two rejecting a bill that would have...

Columbus Meets Evita and Gets Carried Away

William J. Connell

Unlike the Columbus Day celebrations in the U.S., which were intended as a way of mitigating prejudice against recent arrivals, in Latin America an overtly racialist ideology...

Italian American Monuments, Gramsci-style

Laura E. Ruberto

Upon visiting Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument in the Bronx, passing reflections on impermanence, aesthetics, and what makes something Italian American.

Viva La Mamma! An Italian-American Homage to Mother Italy.

Francesca Giuliani

On May 11, IHCC-NY celebrated the annual Mother’s Day ceremony at the Mother Italy Statue at Hunter College and received the moral responsibility of the statue from Justice...

Learning Italian in a Los Angeles kindergarten

Judith Harris

There is a public, not a private, school in California that is unique: it offers its students, beginning in kindergarten, full immersion in studies of a second language, which can...

Whose Day Is It Anyway?

Joey Skee

Poet Diana di Prima offers alternative Italian-American heroes to Columbus.

Blame it on Columbus

Jerry Krase

This year's reflection on the Columbus Day Parade in New York City has become much more problematic as at least one of the Italian American characters who was proudly marching in...

It Wasn’t Columbus’ Fault. Or Was It?

Ottorino Cappelli

Musings around a frivolous article about very serious things... and some suggestions for those who think that Christopher Columbus was just an "Italian" hero.

Should We Celebrate Columbus Day? And Why?

Fred Gardaphe

Columbus, like many figures of history, has outlived his usefulness for all Americans, but for Italian Americans he continues to represent the struggle their immigrant forbearers...

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