Resource Page

BOOKS FROM AUTHORS

• Rafael Ortiz : Click here to view
• Dr. Carol Delaney : Click here to view
• Dr. Mary Grabar : Click here to view

ARTICLES

• Setting the Record Straight on Christopher Columbus with Author and Expert Rafael Ortiz
• Cancel Culture vs Christopher Columbus, an interview with Robert Ferrito, National President of the OSDIA Commission for Social Justice

VIDEOS

• RWU Presidential Lectures Dr. Carol Delaney Nov. 30 2017 (1 hr 29 min)
• Drexel University Expert Panel on Christopher Columbus: Columbus Was a Hero & a Good Man (1 hr 58 min)
• OSDIA Interviews LIVE!: Christopher Columbus Special (44 min)
• In the Spotlight with Valori Zaslow, featuring Robert Petrone on Christopher Columbus (27 min)
• Columbus Facts in 90 Seconds (1 min 30 sec)
• Third Annual Columbus Day Lecture: Carol Delaney on “Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem” (47 min)
• Courage and Conviction: The True Story of Christopher Columbus (28 min)
• Christopher Columbus: the Holy Admiral (15 min)
• The Real Life Of Christopher Columbus | The Secrets And Lies Of Columbus | Timeline (1 hr 11 min)
• Christopher Columbus Loved the Indians, He personally did not kill an Indian Dr. Delaney author (10 min)
• Howard Zinn and the Book That Poisoned a Generation (5 min 44 sec)

CURRICULUM- The New Jersey Italian American Heritage Commission 

• Lesson Index

Unit One: Kindergarten – 1st Grade Lessons

• Lesson 1- Pinocchio
• Lesson 2- The Story of La Befana
• Lesson 3- Commèdia dell’ Arte
• Lesson 4- “The Cunning Shoemaker: a Fairy Tale”

Unit Two: 2nd – 3rd Grade Lessons

• Lesson 1- Introduction to the Italian Renaissance: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Lesson 2- Giotto
• Lesson 3- “Romulus and Remus”: Myths and Conflict Resolution
• Lesson4- Marco Polo

Unit Three: 4th – 5th Grade Lessons

• Lesson 1- Christopher Columbus and Giovanni Da Verrazzano
• Lesson 2- Geronimo Stilton
• Lesson 4- Aida Lesson Plan

Unit Four: History and Society

• Lesson 1- Natural Law
• Lesson 2- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and the Concept of Progress
• Lesson 3- Alternatives to the Venetian Spice Monopoly
• Lesson 4- Understanding Stream-of-Consciousness through Leonardo da Vinci’s principle of Curiositia
• Lesson 5- All Men are Equal

Unit Five: Immigration and Prejudice

• Lesson 1- Darwinism and Anti-Italian Sentiment
• Lesson 2- VOICES: Stereotypes in the Classroom
• Lesson 3- Overview of Immigration to America
• Lesson 4- Italian Immigration to New Jersey, 1890
• Lesson 5- Lynching Italian Americans and Mob Violence
• Lesson 6- Italian Americans & World War II Detention Camps

Unit Six: Arts and Sciences

• Lesson 1- Thomas Jefferson’s Use of Palladio to Express Republican Virtues in Architecture
• Lesson 2- Who Invented What?
• Lesson 3- Italian Renaissance Art: Three Dimensional
• Lesson 4- It is the Question That You Ask
• Lesson 5- The Flavian Amphitheatre: Bread and Circuses
• Lesson 6- The Impact of Nature on Fibonacci
• Lesson 7- The Impact of Fibonacci on Art and Architecture

Unit Seven: Italians and the Holocaust

• Lesson 1- Guilty of Righteousness
• Lesson 2- Righteous Italian Heroes
• Lesson 3- Primo Levi

Unit 8: Distinguished Women

• Lesson 1- Catherine DeAngelis, M.D., M.P.H.
• Lesson 2- Maria Gaetana Agnesi
• Lesson 3- Rita Levi-Montalcini
• Lesson 4- Sofonisba Anguissola

Unit 9: Italy in the 20th and 21st Centuries

• Lesson 3- Italian Space Agency
• Lesson 4- Italian Nobel Prize Recipients in Literature

PRINTABLE MATERIALS

• Why Columbus Matters – Brochure – Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations (COPOMIAO)

  To request brochures, contact csj@osia.org