Essays
Vincent DiGirolamo, “Slaves in the Salon: The Underside of Julius LeBlanc Stewart’s Belle Époque,” in The Sweet Life: Julius LeBlanc Stewart and Paining the Belle Époque (Giles, Ltd, 2024).
Vincent DiGirolamo, “Newsies—The Real Story Behind the Musical,” London Times, Dec.3, 2022. Newsies_The Real Story_London Times
Vincent DiGirolamo, “July 18, 1899: Newsboys Strike in New York,” This Day in History, Zinn Educational Project, July 18, 2022.
Vincent DiGirolamo, “Nov. 28, 1864: Sand Creek Massacre,” 21 Lessons from America’s Worst Moments,” Time magazine, June 25, 2020.
Vincent DiGirolamo, “Sand Creek, 1864: An American Killing Field,” essay with primary documents, in Vol. 1, Chapter 11. “The Civil War: America’s Second Revolution, 1861–1865,” Who Built America: Working People and the Nation’s History (American Social History Project, 2020).
Vincent DiGirolamo, “Newspaper Sellers,” in Nancy Quam-Wickham and Ben Tyler Elliott, A Day in the Life of an American Worker: 200 Trades & Professions Through History. ABC-CLIO, 2019.
Vincent DiGirolamo, “Riis Redux: Seeing the Light,” in My Favorite Image — Picturing United States History, 2010.
Vincent DiGirolamo, “Newsboy Funerals: Tales of Sorrow and Solidarity,” in H. Diner (ed.), How the Other Half Lives, by Jacob Riis. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008, 532–47.
Vincent DiGirolamo, “‘Tramps in the Making’: The Troubling Itinerancy of America’s News Peddlers,” in A.L. Beier & P. Ocobock, Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective. Ohio University Press, 2008, 209–249.
Vincent DiGirolamo, “In Franklin’s Footsteps: News Carriers and Post Boys in the Revolution and Early Republic” and “‘Though the Means Were Scanty’: Excerpts from Joseph T. Buckingham’s Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life” (1852), in J. Marten, Children and Youth in a New Nation. NYU Press, 2008, 48–66; 229–241.
Vincent DiGirolamo, “New York in an Age of Amusement,” in J. Tottis, Life’s Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists’ Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925. Detroit Institute of the Arts/Merrell, 2007, 53–73.
Vincent DiGirolamo, “Growing Up in Down Times: Children of the Great Depression,” Young America: Experiences of Youth in U.S. History. New York: Center for New Media and American Social History Project, 2007.
Vincent DiGirolamo, “Newsboy Funerals: Tales of Sorrow and Solidarity in Urban America,” in K. Merlock Jackson, Rituals and Patterns in Children’s Lives. Popular Press/University of Wisconsin Press, 2005, 156–188.
Vincent DiGirolamo, “The Historian as Artist, Activist, and Amateur,” OAH Newsletter 30:3, Sept. 2002, 7. vdg Historian as AAA
Reviews
Vincent DiGirolamo, Cub Reporters: American Children’s Literature and Journalism in the Golden Age. By Paige Gray. American Historical Review (June 2023). 2023 DiGirolamo AHR Cub Reporters
Vincent DiGirolamo, Parkchester: A Bronx Tale of Race and Ethnicity. By Jeffrey S. Gurock. American Jewish History, 105 (3), 2021, 442–445. project_muse_840024
Vincent DiGirolamo, Eyes on Labor: News Photography and America’s Working Class. By Carol Quirke. Journal of American History 100:4, 2014, 1242-1243. Carol_Quirke_Eyes_on_Labor_News_Photogra
Vincent DiGirolamo, Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope Along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. By Constance Rosenblum. American Jewish History, 96:1, 2012, 102-105.
Vincent DiGirolamo, “Such, Such Were the B’hoys…,“a review essay on Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. Radical History Review 90, 2004, 123–141.
Documentaries
Humanities Adviser, “Becoming Helen Keller,” Straight Ahead Pictures, PBS American Masters, 2020.
“The Big Strike: Labor Unrest in the Great Depression,” a teaching module. Investigating US History, American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, 2005.
Produced by Monterey natives Vincent DiGirolamo and Spencer Nakasako, Monterey’s Boat People examines the economic, racial, and environmental conflicts surrounding Vietnamese refugee fishermen on Monterey Bay in the early 1980s. The documentary provides a much-needed historical perspective through oral history interviews and photographs of pioneer Chinese and Japanese immigrant fishermen. Funded by an NEH Youthgrant. Red Ribbon, American Film Festival; Finalist, U.S. Film & Video Festival; First Place, Santa Cruz Video Festival; Association of Asian Pacific Artists Award. Aired nationally on PBS, 1984.
Poetry & Fiction
Vincent DiGirolamo, “Yoga on the Sound with Karen,” Underwater New York, Jan. 4, 2016.
Vincent DiGirolamo, Whispers Under the Wharf – A Monterey Ghost Story, illus. by Bruce Ariss. Fithian Press, 1990. Two brothers—one living and one a ghost—haunt an eccentric waterfront community. Ch. 6, “Gao’s Curse,” appeared in Alta Vista magazine, Sept. 2, 1990, 10-15.