Recomended Links
Recommended Links
Casa Italia
http://www.casaitaliachicago.org/
Loyola Italian American Studies Program
Website https://www.luc.edu/modernlang/minors/italianamericanstudies/
Fra Noi
Website http://www.franoi.com
IASA Italian American Studies Association
Website https://www.italianamericanstudies.net/cpages/home
Milestones
Website https://www.niaf.org/culture/milestones/
National Italian American Foundation
Chicago History Museum
Website http://www.chicagohs.org/
Vince LoCascio (I'm a Busy Guy)
Website http://www.busyguy.co/index.asp
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/BusyGuyTV
Article http://triblocal.com/villa-park/community/galleries/2012/02/i%E2%80%99m-a-busy-guy/
Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey-- Italian References
Curriculum Materials for Teaching about Chicago Italian American History
Narrative and 7 Activity Studies for Students
www.lib.niu.edu/1999/iht629936.html Article and Materials
www.lib.niu.edu/1999/iht6299tc.html from Journal
www.lib.niu.edu/1999/iht6299bc.html Bio
recommended books for Italian American studies (jpg imagepage flyer) books
particularly regarding the Chicago area communities and history
Candeloro's PowerPoints:
Italian Am Pol History https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6zkETXc_kkhX0l5N05lZGgxU2s/edit
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6zkETXc_kkhX0l5N05lZGgxU2s/edit
IA writers 20C
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6zkETXc_kkhQm9pVE94OE42d00/edit?usp=sharing
IAs 1930s
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6zkETXc_kkhak43a0lrT3hwNkU/edit?usp=sharing
IA WWII general—national
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6zkETXc_kkhSTVHWkZDV2VMRVk/edit?usp=sharing
From Italian Villages to Chicago Neighborhoods
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6zkETXc_kkhUmE5akJXaDVzejA/edit?usp=sharing
Immigration 1880-1930
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6zkETXc_kkhaExxNkk0X2dycjA/edit?usp=sharing
Recapturing IA FAmily history
IA Culture at Risk of being lost
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6zkETXc_kkhdm5ScmFvemxpVDQ/edit?usp=sharing
IAs & Organized Labor/Radicalism
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6zkETXc_kkhS2ZJb1RIdXNGQms/edit?usp=sharing
Italians in Chicago 1850-present
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6zkETXc_kkhWGwxR0E3QmI0aFk/edit?usp=sharing
Historical Data
Library of Congress
Website https://www.loc.gov/newspapers/?fa=language%3Aitalian
Italian American Newspapers (7 titles, various years, with page images available)
Website https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/
American Newspapers (2718 titles, various years, with page images available)
Civil War Soldiers List
Website https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers.htm
search includes Italian Names on both sides in the U.S. War Between the States circa 1865
Website https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_New_York_Volunteer_Infantry_Regiment
Garibaldi Guard 39th New York Infantry
Family Heritage Submissions Data
Website www.rootsweb.com
includes some Families from Italy and in the U.S. as submitted by anyone
Enhanced Stephen Morris Ellis Island Database
Website https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/ellisgold.html?
A great tool for tracking individuals and groups from the same Italian town.
Historic Gravestones or Burial Data
Website www.findagrave.com
includes Italian Names in certain Cemetery records or walkings Indexed by anyone
Ancestry Online Documents and Shared Data
Website https://www.ancestry.com/?o_xid=22775&o_lid=22775
National Archives and Fold3
Website https://www.archives.gov/research/databases
See Also
New York Times and Chicago Tribune search indexes online to digital copies
WorldCat compiled eCard Catalogs
JSTOR academic periodicals database searches
Heritage Quest, Dejatext, Project Gutenberg, and sites like books.amazon.com or Google Books,
Bibliography referals in Reconstructing Italians. Amazon, Casa Italia Library: 2021.
images to sort
Offsite Links
Keepin It Real with Frankie D. -- An Italian American (audio) Podcast
website
many and ongoing interviews by Frank Di Piero with contemporary Chicago Italians;
listen regularly; and contact Frank if you have a contact to be interviewed
(Busy Guy) Vince LoCascio does 30 minute video interviews with contemporary Chicago Italians;
Follow these links: Index of Shows Internet video of actual interviews
website
Michael Bacarella Youtube Channel
Italian American Projects call to action; Italian Americans in the US Civil War; and Italian American Genealogy research
Italian Chicago Internet Radio Show domenicainsieme.com/#!
Live and Archived
website
"A Long Shadow" recording – Italian American Theatre of Chicago
external link to the history of Sacco and Vanzetti via a dramatic reading performance
as presented at Loyola University -- Italian American Studies Program October 2019
website