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…is Italian-American but worked for the American government.” (Copyright: Giorgio Tavecchio) Giorgio’s childhood memories of Italy involve his family, spending time with zii and nonna near Lake Como and playing…

Reprinted From Newsletter, Italian American Studies Association Western Chapter, Winter 2021 Among the features of Prof. Kenneth Scambray’s new book, Italian Immigration in the American  West, 1870-1940, that stand out…

…eye contact again, cleared his throat and continued, “Thanks to Sinatra’s music, I realized I could be an American.  Sinatra was an interesting contrast, he was a main line success…

…generations of Italian Americans have helped shape our society and steer the course of our history. During Italian American Heritage and Culture Month, America recognize the heritage of Americans of…

…the Bank of Italy, but the Italian American Bank. Most Italian-Americans believe that it was A.P. Giannini who founded the first Italian owned and operated bank in San Francisco. In…

…majority of us has grown up watching American shows on tv, listening to American music, reading American novelists and coveting American clothes. For my generation, it was all about Chuck’s,…

…and Works of Henry Blake Fuller, The North American Italian Renaissance: Italian Writing in America and Canada, Surface Roots: Stories, and Queen Calafia’s Paradise: California and the Italian American Novel….

Despite last winter’s attempt to remove it from the list of official holidays observed in California and to replace it with the Native American Day, the historic Columbus Day has…

…Russo Brothers Italian-American Filmmaker Forum (RBIAFF), with support from the Italian Sons and Daughters of America (ISDA) and the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian-American Organizations (COPOMIAO), led by their…

…living in the United States and over 6% of the population. And Italo-Americans are the fourth largest group after Germans, Irish and English with Italian culture woven throughout American society….