Italian american encyclopedia of biography

These are reference works, general histories, and pictorial works, each of which can serve as starting points for research on the story of Italian American life.

All are in the Van Pelt Library collection, two in the Reference stacks.

• The Italian American Experience by Salvatore J. LaGumina (Editor); Frank J. Cavaioli (Editor); Salvatore Primeggia (Editor); Joseph A.

  Varacalli (Editor)

  Call Number: Van Pelt Reference E184.I8 I673 2000

  Publication Date: 1999-10-01

  "This encyclopedia, the first book of its kind, presents the totality of the Italian American experience.

  The coverage includes such broad topics as the influence of Italian Americans on politics and society and their contributions to art and to the development of American Catholicism; anti-Italian discrimination in the United States; Italian American organizations, groups, and archival depositories; the role and status of Italian American women; issues of assimilation; an