By Kiran Bhatraju In the late 1920s, an Italian immigrant with a funny last name arrived in the heart of Appalachia to join the thousands of Scots-Irish who found good wages in the coalfields. He could have moved to New York or Chicago, but he instead came to Perry County to work as a stonemason. His arrival was not uncommon. Appalachian...
READ MOREIl premio biennale, ideato dalla Filef e promosso dalla Regione Umbria in collaborazione con l'Isuc, è giunto alla nona edizione. Nei circa 20 anni di vita è diventato una sorta di "osservatorio in diretta" dell'evoluzione dell'emigrazione e dell'immigrazione. In questi anni ha raccolto centinaia di testimonianze, nelle sezioni Narrativa e...
READ MOREOn Sunday, Oct. 5, author Paolo Battaglia will give a presentation on his new book, "Explorers, Emigrants, Citizens: A Visual History of the Italian American Experience from the Collections of the Library of Congress" at the Lackawanna Historical Society's Catlin House, 232 Monroe Ave., Scranton. The program will begin at 2 p.m. Battaglia...
READ MOREdi Maurita Cardone I volti segnati dal lavoro, le insegne su cui campeggiano nomi e cognomi dal suono familiare, simboli religiosi, gesti noti: lo sguardo scorre sulle immagini e riconosce i segni di una storia collettiva, quella degli italiani d'America. La mostra Reframing Italian America: Historical Photographs and Immigrant Re...
READ MOREOggi inizia, in Commissione Affari costituzionali, l'esame delle proposte di riforma della normativa in materia di cittadinanza, attualmente in capo, principalmente, alla legge 91/1992. Assieme alla legge di riforma di iniziativa popolare, verrà, pertanto esaminata anche la Proposta di Legge dell'On. FitzGerald Nissoli recante "Modifica all'artico...
READ MOREOctober 13, 2015, 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm.John D. Calandra Italian American Institute25 West 43rd Street, 17th FloorNew York, N.Y. 10036 This symposium will revisit aspects of the Italian diaspora in North America in its numerous manifestations: anthropological, cultural, aesthetic, etc. The panel will also include a discussion on the internation...
READ MOREDal 17 luglio al 15 settembre 2013 Palazzo Arnone in Cosenza, sede della Soprintendenza per i Beni Storici, Artistici ed Etnoantropologici della Calabria e della Galleria Nazionale di Cosenza, ospiterà la mostra Partono i Bastimenti.La rassegna, progettata e promossa dalla Fondazione Roma - Mediterraneo e felicemente condivisa dalla Soprintendenza...
READ MOREWTI Magazine #5 2013 Nov, 15Author : Regional Museum of Emigration Pietro Conti Translation by: The Video Competition Memorie Migranti (Migrant Memories) arrives this year at its tenth edition. The competition was created to recover the historical memory of italian emigration in the world and foster resea...
READ MOREThe first Italians who came to the US during the mass migration age spent their first years basically without any right. Some of them because they considered themselves "birds of passage": they came to the US with the full intent of making money and then come back to Italy. Some of them because they weren't interested in losing their Italian citize...
READ MOREIn December of 2007, I was 3 years into my "whirling dervish" obsession of gaining every drop of family history knowledge that I could garner. It became self-evident that my ancestral journey had begun, and so I conceived the idea of creating a website to memorialize, and forever "etch" into existence, the information that I would render from this...
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