Remember taking Chemistry in high school? It was often fun, especially when you partnered up with a classmate to take the pressure off, or when the teacher demonstrated dramatic chain reactions. Prominently displayed in that classroom or lab was the ...

My colleagues at the Italic Institute once coined the witty phrase "Hollywood-Media Axis," noting the not-so-subtle link between Tinsel Town and the mainstream media—specifically, how the two of them incestuously promote the Big Lie that Italian culture is essentially a ...

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 ...

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 ...