La voce degli italoamericani
Exploring Italian American culture, history, traditions, and contemporary stories
October 2026
Our guide brings together the month’s history, family and classroom activities, and ways to find community events. Pick one way to take part this October.
Featured food & culture guide
Explore Italian American food through regional traditions, family kitchens, and documented histories of Italian American cuisine across the United States.
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Explore the food guide
Explore the four PBS episodes with official viewing information, historical context, family discussion questions and a practical comparison worksheet.
Understand the Feast of the Seven Fishes, why family menus differ, and how to plan a manageable Christmas Eve dinner while saving its story.
Move from an unsuccessful Antenati name search to register images, handwritten indexes, candidate entries, and a browsing log you can resume.
Use American records to identify an ancestor's Italian town, distinguish birthplace from residence, and check the place against family evidence.
Lawrence Venturato imagines the voice of removed Christopher Columbus statues in a guest essay on monuments, memory, and Italian American heritage.
Support free Italian American stories in our 2026 Annual Fund Drive. Give directly, check employer matching, or request donor acknowledgment.
A practical overhead-camera workflow for family letters, photographs, clippings, and fragile papers in binders and sleeves.
Explore La Guardia, Grasso, Pastore and Celebrezze through public service, archival photographs and a community-history activity for Heritage Month.
Explore John Ciardi, Helen Barolini, Jerre Mangione and Pietro di Donato through translation, anthologies, memoir and working-life fiction.
Meet six famous Italian Americans through schools, science, sport, film, music and a historic campaign—and explore the records behind their stories.
Begin Heritage Month with one photograph and a respectful conversation, then use a free kit to organize the memory or submit a story with permission.
Three published records trace Richard Alghini’s Chicago macaroni business: a 1930 directory listing, his own 1936 trade-press response, and a September 1936 factory-fire notice.
How regional Italian cooking, migration, trade and American kitchens shaped Italian American food, with documented family stories and a way to save your own.
Major Italian American feasts and festivals, January to December, with organizer-confirmed dates for October 2026 parades and festivals.
Explore Sicilian surnames, their possible meanings, regional patterns, and linguistic history, with guidance for tracing a family through records.
Explore Italy's verified 2024 baby-name leaders, the grandparent naming custom, name days, and a records-first way to trace names across the Atlantic.
Meet Italian Americans in politics, science, sports, culture, and community life. Explore their profiles, sources, and the directory’s selection criteria.
What your Italian last name means — the five origin types, the region it points to, the Ellis Island myth debunked, and the foundling names. Look yours up.
Explore Italian American history, communities, culture and contributions, with carefully sourced population figures and ways to research your family heritage.
From Calabria's silent processions to Florence's Scoppio del Carro — how Holy Week unites faith, food and family across Italy, and in Italian America.
In 2024, ius sanguinis acquisitions among Italy’s residents were about 3.5 times the 2021 level. Explore the data, family records, and legal questions.
This guide explains how to research Italian citizenship by descent and where to check official legal updates. It does not determine whether you qualify.
What Italian American slang really means — gabagool, rigott’, pasta fazool, and the Neapolitan and Sicilian dialect roots behind the words Nonna used.
How AI, family history, and a 10-hour sprint built a storytelling prototype. Keep original recordings and independent backups to help preserve family stories.
La Festa di San Giuseppe explained — the Sicilian altar tradition, the zeppole, the New Orleans parade, and how Italian Americans keep March 19 today.
Christopher Alghini and Frank Scalise maintain a Phoenix street segment. Their proposed national challenge remains a future goal.
Italian citizenship by descent: recognition statistics, family records, and questions raised by the 2025 reforms.
Tetù are Sicilian cookies with a soft center and a sweet glaze. This version uses cocoa, warm spices, and orange zest.
The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics took place from February 6 to 22, with events across northern Italy.
The history, lyrics, and legacy of Il Canto degli Italiani — Italy's national anthem from revolutionary origins to today.
We are opening our pages to you — family recipes, kitchen memories, opinions on Italian American identity. Your story belongs here.
The Alghini Institute introduces a home for Italian American history, family stories, and research resources.
Share your family's heritage, traditions, and experiences with our community
Start with the Italian Americans overview for context, then explore the subjects that connect with your family or interests. Article citations and source links help distinguish documented facts from personal recollections. Dates matter: demographic estimates, events, and services can change.
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Every Family Has a Story · 2026 Annual Fund Drive
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