Christopher Columbus

In questo momento dove la pandemia imperversa ed è un momento di sofferenza per tutti, vorrei ricordare che la cultura è di grande conforto! Il 26 ottobre scorso, (non sono riuscita a farla calendarizzare il 12 ottobre, ma mi accontento),...

“As soon as we heard about the removal of the statue in front of the Heritage Wall we asked the municipality for permission to transfer the statue to our club. The idea was immediately approved by the members of the...

Today being Columbus Day, I would like to express my personal opinion on this commemoration. Despite the false and malignant attributes many people attach to Christopher Columbus today--many even contemptuously distancing themselves from him-- only Italian Americans still admire and...

While erecting statues to the Genoese explorer, and opening museums dedicated to him, apparently a lot of things were ignored. There is still much to say about him, and many aspects and experiences to be recounted-- and that’s exactly what...

A quanto pare ci si è dimenticati di raccontare molte cose mentre si erigevano statue e si aprivano musei dedicati all' esploratore genovese. Il personaggio sembra ancora ricco di aspetti ed esperienze da raccontare ed è quello che hanno provato...

The argument made by Douglass in 1852 is similar to that of the descendants of the "Native Americans" who do not celebrate "Thanksgiving", and could also be taken as a model by us today when it comes to reflecting on...

In Italiano It’s almost like a Pirandello play: loves and hatreds, admiration and disdain for a similar situation, but seen from different points of view, simply to remind us that absolute truth does not exist. And this very sick America,...

In wanting Columbus’ statues the intent of the Italian-American migrants was not to celebrate the genocide of the Native Americans or the expropriation of their lands. Emblematic in this regard is the erection of the New York monument to Cristopher...

(Washington, D.C. – June 12, 2020) – The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) Board of Directors are united in their protest of the vandalization of the Christopher Columbus statues in Boston, Mass.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Richmond, Va.; and many other cities....

I’m not generally in favor of destroying historical statues or monuments—I’d prefer to see more of them, and more from recent times, too--but even if all the remaining monuments to him were to be destroyed, Columbus would still be with...