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John Mancini – Founder and Executive Director

Those Exciting 70s

The Italian Stallion with the Spanish surname Among the anniversaries to be celebrated this year will be Rocky, the Hollywood blockbuster from 1976 that was top grosser of the year. Italian Americans were on a roll that decade. The Godfather ...

Bill Dal Cerro, Senior Analyst

GO SOUTH, YOUNG MAN!

This just in: According to a June 21, 2026 article in Travel and Tour World Magazine, Italy has finally surpassed Spain and Greece in the so-called "Battle of the Mediterranean Countries," an unofficial annual derby tracked by world-wide travel consultants ...

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 ...