SPRINGFIELD — Three Springfield area attorneys and the founder of an organization that oversees the impact of incarceration will be honored at the 87th commemoration of the executions of Nicola Sacco ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barbara Howard: This is All Things Considered, I’m Barbara Howard. Ninety years ago today, Sacco and Vanzetti were executed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti — ...

It’s been more than 60 years since Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed Yet, when Gov. Michael Dukakis pardoned them in 1977 — with the words, “ any stigma and disgrace should be forever ...

Today, we go back to 1927, and the final moments for two Boston suspected criminals-turned-cause célèbre whose lives were immortalized by Woody Guthrie and whose story shaped the public policy of one ...

Ninety years ago Wednesday, Italian immigrants and avowed anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston after one of the most notorious criminal cases of the 20th ...

Wednesday marked the 90th anniversary of the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian-born anarchists who were convicted of killing a payroll clerk and security guard during an ...

Every generation or so, America goes through emotional convulsions, when fear of foreign and domestic enemies erodes the nation’s sense of tolerance and its respect for civil liberties. The 1950s ...

Long before they had expiated their crimes in the death chair, the names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, perhaps the most talked of individuals in the world, had become scarcely more than ...

Reading literature can be a drag at times so here is some visual content and music to compliment the modest archive at libcom.org on Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Just in case you don't know ...