La Verita' = the Truth (Waterbury, Conn.) 191?-1939
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
655 issues from 1926 to 1939, published in Waterbury, Connecticut, digitised for Chronicling America.
The weekly newspaper La verità was established on September 1, 1911, in Waterbury, Connecticut. Originally appearing on Saturdays, it began to be published on Fridays starting on March 4, 1932, and included a range of four to eight pages per issue.
The editor, Frank De Feo, after 15 years of “assiduo lavoro…sacrifizi…lotte” (“hard work, sacrifices, and fights”), announced his resignation to the readers on April 24, 1926. Starting on May 1, 1926, lawyer Nicola Testa became the newspaper’s editor.
On the newspaper’s masthead, there were brief statements — in Italian and often translated in English — describing its main goals: truth, education, cooperation, and fight for the rights of the people. Starting on October 9, 1926, in the same issue in which there was a long article about the inauguration of a statue dedicated to Columbus, a patriotic epigraph from Niccolò Tommaseo (1802-1874), essayist, linguist, and editor of Dizionario della Lingua Italiana appeared under the title. The epigraph, which was present until July 7, 1939, exhorted the readers to remember that Italians always contribute to all works of art or scientific innovation.
Clearly philo-fascist, when reporting the news related to Benito Mussolini, La verità celebrated the domestic, international, and colonial political agenda of his dictatorship as well as his alliance with Adolf Hitler.
Adopted as a tool to build a strong Italian identity among the members of the so-called “colonia italiana” (Italian…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Waterbury, Connecticut, United States
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress