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A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand account of Greenwich Village in the early 1960s and her relationship with Bob Dylan. Rotolo grew up during…
Thousands of stonecutters emigrated from northern Italy to Barre, Vermont, the “Granite Capital of the World.” These scalpellini carved impressive sculptures that still grace public…
A 2006 Eisner Award-nominee for “Best Graphic Album: Reprint,” Feast of the Seven Fishes is a hardcover collection of the online strip serialized in 2004-2005…
Mario B. Mignone (Stony Brook University) Based on his book Italy Today: Facing the Challenges of the New Millennium (Peter Lang, 2007), Mario Mignone will…
Twisted Head is a witty and poignant memoir of a young man growing up in a working-class Italian-American family in the Bronx during the 1960s…
Magic Man traces Paul Malignaggi’s life from his experiences of paternal cruelty and abandonment to his peripatetic childhood in Brooklyn and Sicily. His successful career…
Mark Choate, Brigham Young University Between 1880 and 1915, thirteen million Italians left their homeland, launching the largest emigration from any country in recorded world…
Tom Smith After a sensational trial, eleven Italian Americans acquitted in the murder of New Orleans police chief David Hennessy were killed in the largest…
My Cousin the Saint charts the parallel history of two relatives, Justin Catanoso’s grandfather, Carmelo, and his canonized cousin, Father Gaetano. Carmelo emigrated from the…
These two films consider contemporary Sicilian-American religious practices and the material culture in Texas and Connecticut, respectively. Texas Tavola looks at the Italian-American communities of…
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Chist’è New York: The Mark Pezzano Collection of Neapolitan Sheet Music from New York.” The canzone napoletana (Neapolitan song)…
Click here for full exhibition catalogue. In conjunction with the “Neapolitan Postcards” conference , the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute presents “Chist’è New York:…