Two Newspapers, One Lynching: Sicily, New Orleans, and a Shared Memory of Violence

A friend recently showed me two newspapers from his collection, each bearing a stark illustration of the 1891 lynching of Sicilians in New Orleans on the cover. One is Italian, the other American, and together they capture how the same act of violence was rendered and circulated on both sides of the Atlantic—grim evidence of how widely this episode was seen, recorded, and remembered at the time.