Scarred by World War I, the United States experienced hard, troubled, and frightening times from 1918-1920. The government imprisoned and deported hundreds of communists and agitators entering the ...

Two lambs to the slaughter, the Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in 1927 for a crime that they almost certainly did not commit, put to death by the state of ...

An object we call The Vanzetti Knife has been in my family for more than 100 years. It belonged to Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish peddler in Plymouth, Mass., in the 1910s. He was arrested along with ...

"The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti: Justice on Trial," explores not only the trial itself, but the tension and political turmoil of the times. The exhibit highlights the prejudice against immigrants that ...

Comment on the repercussions of the Sacco Vanzetti case in America and abroad are numerous in the editorial columns of the Yiddish press. The “Jewish Morning Journal,” conservative paper, commenting ...

“Sacco and Vanzetti,” like Michael Winterbottom‘s wretched “Road to Guantanamo,” sets out to condemn an atmosphere of hysterical, flimsily supported accusation, but finally can’t resist firmly ...

Charlestown State Prison, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 23 -- Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti died in the electric chair early this morning, carrying out the sentence imposed on them for the South ...

MARLENE MARTIN tells the story of two Italian immigrants and revolutionaries framed for murder and put to death by the state. "I wanted a roof for every family, bread for every mouth, education for ...

New York: The Viking Press. 1928. 8vo. xi+ 414 pp. .$3.00. WILL not some publisher sponsor a library of prison literature? It could begin with the Phado, and include works from many climes and times.