One of the leading historians and writers in the field of immigrant culture

When Niccolo Machiavelli penned his masterpiece, The Prince, Italy was a land divided and besieged by many foreign forces.  In his last chapter, “An Exhortation to free Italy from the Hands of the Barbarians,” he calls for new weapons and formations to be used in warding off intruders and to prepare...

Letter from Prof. Fred Gardaphe to protest CUNY- Brooklyn College's recent action deactivating the major and minor specializations and greatly reducing the courses offered in Italian:

The very narratives of Italian American identity deal with the issues of remembering and forgetting both Italy and Little Italys, and today one of the master narratives of Italian American identity appears once a year in the celebration of Columbus Day