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The Italic Way Magazine archives
The Italic Way Magazine was published from 1988 to 2016, forty-three issues in all. It had a select national audience of about 10,000 at its height. Unlike most Italian American periodicals our readers didn’t just thumb through the magazine. They actually read it. Its contents were more diverse and more deeply researched than other periodicals in the community. It wasn’t about food, fashion, or travel. It covered current events as well as Italian and Italian American history.
Even our obituary sections hallmarked an amazing array of men and women whose impact on society was not always well known, but made outstanding contributions in every field of human endeavor.
Our editorials revealed insights in issues and events that affected the Italic people and guided the perspectives of our readers. Even our name Italic meant to convey a classical heritage of 3,000 years, not just the recent past. You cannot understand the Italian legacy without its classical roots.
Newsletters of the Institute, beginning 1997
From 1997, the Italic Institute published a periodic newsletter for members and followers. It went by various names which included The Founders’ Log, The Officers’ Log, and Update. These newsletters documented the activities and personnel of the Institute through the decades.
Italy’s Fascist Era 1919 – 1945
An Italic Institute exclusive
A landmark 3-volume summary of Italy’s Fascist Era.
This unique Trilogy includes Mussolini’s foreign policy between the world wars, Italy’s ill-fated participation in World War II, and its rarely acknowledged actions during Hitler’s Holocaust.
This Trilogy is the most revealing and balanced history ever compiled on these subjects. No discussion of the Fascist Era is complete without these reader-friendly summaries. Supporting documentation and pictorials are displayed on each page.
Vol 1 – Italy Between the Wars
Vol 2 – Italy at War
Vol 3 – Italy and the Holocaust
At last, a balanced report on how Italian-British relations after the First World War affected Hitler’s rise and European aggressions.
Very few historians have given Great Britain’s hegemony over the Mediterranean Sea the importance it deserves. Fascist Italy became the target of British foreign policy to the detriment of collective security against Germany.
Probably the most factual and balanced summary of Italy’s motives and participation in the Second World War.
From June, 1940 to May, 1945, the Kingdom of Italy under Fascist rule fought on numerous fronts in the air, land, and sea. Despite the heroism of its military and the suffering of its civilian population, post-war histories have spitefully made a mockery of Italy’s war efforts. This volume finally clears the record.
A summary of Italy’s role in European politics from 1933 to 1945 primarily concerning relations with the world-wide Jewish community.
This report sheds light on the events surrounding the advent of the Holocaust and the times before and during World War II.
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A Pictorial History of the Italian People
A Pictorial History of the Italian People by Massimo Salvadori explores the depth and diversity of the Italian people through history until present with its wealth of imagery and insightful prose.
This book features some of the greatest thinkers, poets, artists, and composers of Western civilization such as Cicero, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Galileo, Croce, Virgil, Horace, Dante, Petrarch, Giotto, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Bernini, Vivaldi, and Verdi.
Four Centuries of Italian-American History
Four Centuries of Italian-Amerian History by Giovanni Schiavo is a comprehensive exploration of Italians’ integral relationship with America from Columbus’ discovery in 1492 to the numerous contributions made by many notable Italian-Americans of the past four centuries.
The vital historical information within Schiavo’s comprehensive study is what every Italian-American should know about their proud heritage.
Atlantica – The Italian Monthly Review
The IIA is proud to announce that it is making the historical journal Atlantica, the Italian Monthly Review, available online to the public.
Atlantica was a monthly journal launched by Dr. F. Cassola in New York in 1925 and published until 1940. The Italic Institute came by forty-two issues as a donation from Dominick Lamonica, who edited the periodical from April, 1930 to July, 1934. These issues are a time capsule of the national Italian-American community that covered social, political, academic, and artistic subjects. There is neither food nor fashion contained here. Atlantica was meant to be a serious reflection of second generation Italic people in America.
No history of Italian Americans is complete without consulting the pages of Atlantica.
