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 ...

The Untouchables: Connery advising Costner In the 1987 film The Untouchables, set in 1920s Chicago, Elliot Ness (Kevin Costner) gets some advice from streetwise Chicago cop Jim Malone (Sean Connery) on how to handle the city's current bad guy, Al ...

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 ...