Browse Collections (13 total)
Periodicals: newspapers and magazines

The collection is rich in hard to find magazines and/or newspapers like Ernesto Valentini's Zarathustra, Vincenzo Vacirca's Il Solco and La Strada,…
Political subversives IV: Arturo Giovannitti, Carlo Tresca, and their circles

Arturo Giovannitti immigrated to Montreal at the age of 17, where he became a Protestant pastor. He then moved to Pennsylvania, preaching mostly to…
Political subversives III: Fascists and anti-fascists

The Anti-Fascist movement embraced diverse leftists, including Carlo Tresca, as noted above. Opposition to Mussolini from the left was reflected by…
Political subversives II: Anarchists (all types), socialists, syndicalists, communists, anti-clericals

Looking homeward: Publication in Italy (and elsewhere) of works about Americans and Italians

The writers here sometimes looked homeward, to Italy (but also France and elsewhere), to find a publisher who was sufficiently interested in the…
Guides, rulebooks, domestic aids, "keys", model speeches, and letters, for the protection of Italians and to enable them to become Americans

Società Libraria Italiana: The Italian Book Company

Political subversives I: The bibliographic travels of Luigi Galleani and Armando Borghi

Luigi Galleani Galleani was one of the anarchist movement’s most eloquent writers and spellbinding orators, heir to the great Errico Malatesta in…
Learning the languages: For Americans and Italians

The “languages” here are, of course, both English and Italian. In ways that I could not begin to perceive when I started collecting works in Italian,…
Outside of New York and the Northeast: San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia

While much of this collection – about half of the ítems in it – was published in the major centers of Italian population in New York City, New Jersey…
Imaginative literature of the great migration: Fiction, poetry, drama, music, and art in books, magazines, and other works on paper

During this period fiction, poetry and drama ranged from the sensational urban “mysteries” of Bernardino Ciambelli (never translated into English) to…
Histories, philosophy, biographies, directories, almanacs, annuals, religious, educational, and travel literature

In these non-fiction works, Italians reflected upon themselves and their American experiences. Representing the non-sovversivi type of immigrant, who…