Here are some useful Web sites pertaining to Italian Americans:

• Anthony Parente's about.com page on Italian Americans has some links.
• Vitual Italia is a great all around entry for things Italian, with a local San Francisco focus.
• Italian American Yahoo Club is a place to meet Italian Americans.
• Sponsored by the American Italian Historical Association, the H-ItAm site archives the list serve's postings.
• the Giovanni Agnelli Foundationin Italy sponsors the Italiani nel mondo site with links to the scholarly journal Altreitalie ,a form for locating Italian ancestors,and more links.
• Luigi Bonaffini's Italian Dialect Poetry site is an incredible resource for learning about the other Italian Languages.
• Literary scholar Fred Gardaphe's article on discovering Italian American writers is a great introduction.Fred heads up the Italian American Studies program at Stony Brook College.
• the Canadian publisher Guernica has released many books by Italian American and Italian Canadian authors.
• Chicago-based author Tony Ardizzone, who Gardaphe's writes is "one of the best short story writers around," writes about Italian American themes.
• the Italian-American Writer's Association (IAWA)supports and promotes the living authors. IAWA lives by the motto "Write or be written."
• the journal VIA publishes original fiction,poetry,reviews,and essays.