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Books. Italy’s Skeleton in the Closet

Stefano Albertini

New York University Professor of Italian Studies and History Ruth Ben-Ghiat discusses her new book Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema. This interview aired on our TV show and is...

Honoring War Criminals: The Monument to Rodolfo Graziani

Graziani was notorious as Benito Mussolini's military commander in colonial wars in Ethiopia and Libya where he carried out massacres. Recently in Rome was honoured with a...

January 27, Remembrance Day: Ordinary Italians and Genocide 1943-45

Simon Levis Sullam

What is a genocide and how does it occur? This is a question that we Italians can and should ask as Remembrance Day (January 27th) approaches again this year. We should ask...

Must-Reads: The Italian Brothers

Chiara Morucci

Foreign editor of La Stampa Paolo Mastrolilli presents at Calandra Institute his latest work, "The Italian Brothers," a novel inspired by the lives of his father and his uncle...

Essay on Survival and Historical Truth

Jasha M. Levi

EDITORS' NOTE: Mr. Jasha M. Levi, a Yugoslav Jewish antifascist in the 1930s and a fighter against dictatorships and genocides for all his life, fled the Nazis and his native...

What Is in a (Street) Name? Too Much History. And Italian Americans in Chicago Make the Headlines.

Stanislao Pugliese*

A recent petition by Chicago academics to rename Balbo Drive in Chicago has generated a counter-petition and ignited a small controversy in the Italian American community.

Ground Zero Mosque: Ramadan Mobarak!

Jerry Krase

"I wrote this a few weeks ago but the intolerance is growing... The most venomous blabber so far has been the Newt's equating of Moslems to NAZIs and 9/11 to the Shoah. Given his...

Frank Capra Films Italian-San Francisco

Laura E. Ruberto

Capturing Italy’s encounter with California in Frank Capra’s documentary "La visita dell’ Incrociatore Italiano Libia a San Francisco, Calif., 6-29 Novembre 1921"

I-Mussolini: a Political or an Educational Tool?

BENEDETTA GRASSO & GABRIELLE PATI

The most downloaded application in Italy right now, I-Mussolini, a collection of his speeches, causes debates and controversies all over the world.

Remembrance Day 2010. Introducing This Year's Topics

January 27, 2010. Natalia Indrimi, Director of the Primo Levi Center in New York, introduces us the two topics on which Remembrance Day will focus this year: the Jewish Community...

"Bitter Spring": Understanding Ignazio Silone

Simona Zecchi

An interview with Stanislao G. Pugliese, Professor of History at Hofstra College and author of “Bitter Spring: A life of Ignazio Silone.” The controversial Italian...

Passion and Politics

George De Stefano

Marco Bellocchio’s new film reconstructs a piece of Italian history

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