When thousands of Italian immigrants arrived in America in the early 1900s, they brought more than culture - they brought the ...

Operation Underworld is usually remembered as a secret pact between the Navy and the Mafia to secure America’s wartime docks, ...

For decades, Americans have been captivated by gangster and mafia culture. From classic movies like The Godfather to popular TV series such as ¨The Sopranos,¨ the allure of organized crime has ...

The ruling cliché in writing about crime bosses — “the gangster as tragic hero” — was coined in 1948 by Robert Warshow, an extremely intelligent cultural critic, whose premature passing in 1955 robbed ...

Unless someone is an astute student of history, it is unlikely that many know that the largest mass lynching in the nation’s history was of Italian Americans living in New Orleans in the last decade ...