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John Mancini – Founder and Executive Director
Taken for Granted
There have been 25 Medal of Honor winners with Italian roots. The most recent one is David Bellavia of Buffalo, NY. He’s been honored at the White House by President Trump and by the Gary Sinise Foundation, a nonprofit for ...
Bill Dal Cerro, Senior Analyst
LA BRAVA GENTE
Three recent news items, from the trivial to the profound, all extolling the same point: namely, the deep, grounded humanism of the Italic people. Let's start with the trivial. First is an Instagram video posted by Karin Kidlow, the sister ...
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 ...
