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 ...

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 ...

The 1927 executions of anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti had important elements in common with the Cold War executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and the espionage conviction of Alger ...

Sacco & Vanzetti Are Dead! is a satirical retelling of the trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants caught in the web of prejudice and political persecution during America ...

After Dinner Opera Company presents the New York and Orchestral staged premiere of Sacco and Vanzetti, begun by Marc Blitzstein, completed & conducted by Leonard Lehrma, and directed by Benjamin ...

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Aug. 23 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1914, the British Expeditionary Force fought on European soil for the first time since the 1815 Battle of Waterloo in a confrontation with the German army ...

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 ...

Since the early days of Donald Trump’s political rise, mental health experts have argued over the ethics of diagnosing the once-and-wannabe-again POTUS from a distance. There is one stark precedent, ...

Giuliano Montaldo, the prolific Italian director, actor and film industry executive, whose works comprise powerful political drama “Sacco and Vanzetti” about the Massachusetts trial and execution in ...

“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 ...

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 ...