Salvatore J. LaGumina, Professor Emeritus of History and Director of the Center for Italian American Studies at Nassau Community College, award-winning author of over 20 books and more than a hundred of scholarly articles on the experience of Italian immigrants in the United States, and beloved husband, father, and grandfather, passed away on Sunda...

I found this thing called WOP! in a now-gone used bookstore in exurban Connecticut a few years back. When I took it up to the counter, the owner said, “I’m so glad someone’s finally buying this.” Perhaps because he wanted the book out of his store? It was published in 1973 by Straight Arrow Press, one in a series called “Ethnic Prejudice in America...

Two of the five New York borroughs, Queens and Brooklyn, are not only part of New York, but also part of Long Island, at least officially: even so, usually when somebody refers to Long Island thinks about Nassau and Suffolk Counties, not the Queens or Kings (Brooklyn) County.   Long Island is home to many, many Italian Americans. One of them know...