When Fiorello La Guardia Came to Ottawa
Fiorello La Guardia, the larger-than-life mayor of New York City, was the big draw at the…
History
The Downfall of Emilio Picariello
While the earliest wave of Italian immigration to Alberta between 1896 and 1914 largely…
Jim Crow and Italian Immigrants in the American West
The 1920s saw the revival of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in the West, especially in Colorado…
Italy’s Years of Lead
“If you look at events in Italy from the late 1960s to the late 1980s without any…
A Rusting Freighter Spurred World Attention to a Refugee Crisis
When Saigon was overrun by Communist forces on April 30, 1975, thousands of Vietnamese…
Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic
Long before the mid-nineteenth century, thousands of people were constantly moving…
The Gentrification of Griffintown
Dedicated to my grandmother Maria Luisa Agostino, my great-aunt Carmela and my…
Special Agent 203: The Motivations of Augusto Bersani
Bersani had begun to work as an RCMP informant in 1937 while he was still minister at the…
Enrico Tonti: The Most Powerful Man in America
It is widely accepted that the Italian contribution to the exploration of the New World…
The Quadriga – War Booty in Venice’s Piazza San Marco
Objects plundered by conquering armies go by many names: war trophies, spoils of war, war…