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by Maria Gloria   Dear Readers,Father's Day was last Sunday, so Happy Father's Day to all you fathers, grandfathers, uncles, big brothers and father figures out there, and may happy memories bring a small measure of comfort to readers whose fathers are gone now and hopefully are with the angels.   Fathers who were widowed and suddenly...

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A new research project looking at how modern Italian culture has developed around the world, to be led by the University of Bristol, has been awarded £1.8million by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).   From the insights it develops into transnational Italian cultures, the project will forge a new framework for the discipline of...

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Sulla costa est, più su di New York c'è un'area dove furono e sono tantissimi gli italiani che sbarcarono e ancora oggi si trasferiscono. E' l'area del New England, che proprio in questo periodo è ancora più bella grazie ai magnifici diversi colori che si possono trovare nei tanti meravigliosi luoghi in cui la natura americana si mostra in tutta la...

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WTI Magazine #3    2013 Nov, 1 Author : Paolo Battaglia      Translation by:   October 22, 1897 - Birth of Chef BoyardeeEttore "Hector" Boiardi was an Italian-born American chef, famous for his brand of food products, named Chef Boyardee. During World War II, Chef Boyardee provided more rations to the American and a...

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by Lisa D'Ignazio La chiamavano "Nuova York" i primi immigrati italiani che all'inizio del Novecento arrivavano ad Ellis Island. La continuano a chiamare così, quasi per gioco, gli artisti italiani che vivono in quella che resta ancora oggi la città delle opportunità.   New York accoglie nelle sue braccia i suoi Nuovi Yorkers e lo fa con l'...

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The American University of Rome is pleased to participate in Ciao Philadelphia 2015 "The Mediterranean, Bridge or Wall? Immigration in Italy in 2015" by Irene Caratelli, PhD, Director, International Relations & Global Politics, AUR, featuring short films by AUR alumni, "Casa Accoglienza" and "Permission to Belong" &nbs...

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The images above on the Italian Heritage Mural are part of the life work of Italian immigrant Gino Sbrana, who started his American life in San Francisco as a vegetable peddler. By 1911, he had launched a large photographic studio, Pisa Foto, at Columbus and Broadway in San Francisco. Later Gino founded a studio in Oakland and, in 1919, settled in...

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di Paolo Battaglia   Ripartiamo dal Missouri per la tappa di trasferimento più lunga del nostro viaggio: tra due giorni ci attende Denver, la città più italiana del Wild West. Fin dalla metà dell'Ottocento, gli italiani si sono spinti fino al Colorado che, tra l'altro, ha dato i natali a uno dei più grandi letterati di origine italo american...

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By Maura Malfatto Elia   Today I had the pleasure to meet with Alessia Angelin, President of the organization PI Philly (Professionisti Italiani in Philadelphia). We met at 9 am, at the Gran Caffe' L'Aquila, a stylish Italian café near Rittenhouse, playing Italian music and serving gorgeous food.   In front of a piping-hot cappuccino...

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The few Italians who came to Texas during the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were mainly explorers, adventurers or missionaries.   The Italian presence in the state goes back to the earliest years of Spanish exploration. Like Christopher Columbus, Italians were often in the employ of the Spanish during that early peri...

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