Our Top Ten Posts of 2011

Death Dealer by Frank Frazetta

1 Preserving Living History: Interview with Oral Historian Anthony Ricio (Parts 1, 2, 3)

2 Diogenes Need Have Looked No Farther: The Biography of Giovanni Falcone

3 Remembering a Titan — Frank Frazetta

4 Thy Neighbor's Keeper: The Screams of Kitty Genovese Remembered

5 The Heretical Radical: Antonio Gramsci of Sardinia

6 Lessons from the Bella 'Mbrianna

7 Sacred Art From Abruzzo at the Cloisters

8 Halloween, All Saint's Day and Their Ancient Connection With Southern Italy

9 Murder of Sicilians in New Orleans: The Largest Mass Lynching in American History 

10 A Look at "Old Puglia"

Close, but no cigar:

Terroni e Polentoni, A Rare Opportunity and In the Beginning: The Dawn of Humankind in Southern Italy deserve honorable mentions. If these pieces had more "air-time" they may have made the Top Ten list.

Still making the rounds:

1 A Measure of Posterity: Gunnery Sgt. "Manila John" Basilone Finally Gets His Due

2 Cesare Lombroso's Barbaric Legacy

3 Discovering The Riace Warriors

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