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John Mancini – Founder and Executive Director
Behind the Curtains
This past week has seen America in the global spotlight. Our 250th birthday, the World Cup of Soccer, and the Supreme Court addressed birthright citizenship. I was hoping to see better coverage of the Sail4th 250 that took place in ...
Bill Dal Cerro, Senior Analyst
That’s the Italic Way!
The Untouchables: Connery advising Costner In the 1987 film The Untouchables, set in 1920s Chicago, Elliot Ness (Kevin Costner) gets some advice from streetwise Chicago cop Jim Malone (Sean Connery) on how to handle the city's current bad guy, Al ...
Rosario A. Iaconis, Senior Analyst
What Ken Burns Left Out
Contrary to Ken Burns’ recent documentary on the American Revolution, it was a band of Italians, the ancient Romans—not the Iroquois—who served as the model for our fledgling republic. Those are Roman fasces mounted in the U.S. House of Representatives ...
Bob Masullo, Guest Author
ITALIAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS
Alfred E. Smith Who were the pioneer U.S. government officials with Italian roots? The answers are more than names that belong in history books. In a tangible way they provide a measure of how far Italian-Americans have come in the ...
