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 ...

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 ...

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti leave jail at Dedham, Mass., en route to the courthouse where they are to be sentenced by Judge Webster Thayer to die in the electric chair. Bettmann / Getty ...

[THE following document, which is not printed to prolong an argument, has no bearing upon the official record of the tragic case to which it forms the natural epilogue. But in human records its ...

This well-researched nonfiction account by previous collaborators Florio and Shapiro (War in the Ring) highlights post-WWI xenophobia in the U.S. by detailing the execution of Italian immigrants ...

The following is a conversation between Bartolomeo Vanzetti and W.G. Thompson the night before the former was to be executed along with his fellow anarchist Nicola Sacco. Sacco and Vanzetti were in ...

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti have been arrested in time on the third floor of the Community Church of Boston. They are interred, not in a tomb — their bodies were cremated shortly after their ...