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Italian immigrants began settling in Minnesota 200 years ago and at the beginning of the 20th century the largest concentrations were living on the Iron Range, in the Twin Cities, Duluth and Stillwater. Early arrivals tended to be from northern Italy. Railroad workers hired in Chicago and sent northward, took up residence in St. Paul and Minneapoli...

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There is a major city in the United States where the history of Italian emigration, very interesting and full of content, is undoubtedly embodied by a personality, universally recognized and appreciated. That city is Chicago, and the person who has been studying for a long time the Italian emigration and presence there, is Dominic Candeloro. We me...

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di Gianna Pontecorboli   Esuli, rifugiati o emigranti? Quando si parla dell'emigrazione intellettuale italiana negli Stati Uniti alla fine degli anni '30, e soprattutto di quella ebraica, i termini si confondono spesso. A cercar di chiarire la questione da un punto di vista storico, però , e' stata nei giorni scorsi Alessandra Gissi, ricerca...

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Exhibition opening: Thursday, September 18, 2014, 6pm On view: September 19, 2014-January 9, 2015Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm Roundtable discussion: Monday, November 3, 2014, 6pm Italian Americans, mostly from Sicily, make up about a quarter of the population of Gloucester, Massachusetts--the oldest fishing port in the United States. Ma...

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by Al Southwick   The role of Italians in American life continues to fascinate. Worcester County history is especially rich in that chapter of the immigrant saga in America, as shown by the project in Fitchburg where the Italian Cultural Center at Fitchburg State University is assembling an archive - letters, ledgers, diaries, photographs, a...

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The Historical Society of Pennsylvania will award one Albert M. Greenfield Fellowship for research in 20th-century history. The fellowship supports one month of residency in Philadelphia during the 2014-2015 academic year.   The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, enriched by the holdings of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, holds more...

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In 1969, my father Angelo and mother Onorina bought a house in Coney Island. My parents had come over to the United States just ten years before, but then we'd returned to spend four of those years in Italy.   I still had the traces of an accent from my first language, the dialect spoken in Vallemaio, a village of 600 people in the mountains...

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In doing reseach for this post, I was sure that Italian immigrants found their way to Detroit, because it was a major industrial center that offered job opportunities the immigrants were seeking in coming to America. What totally surprised me was the number of immigrants who settled in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A land totally different from...

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WTI Magazine #10    2013 Dec, 20 Author : Paolo Battaglia      Translation by:   December 11, 1882 - Birth of Fiorello LaGuardiaFiorello LaGuardia was certainly one of the most well-known Italian politicians of the 20th century. Nicknamed "the Little Flower," One of LaGuardia's first jobs was as an interpreter at El...

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At 5:12 on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was struck by a severe earthquake estimated at 7.8 on the Richter scale. The San Francisco quake devastated a great many of the city's buildings and generated fires that burned for four days.   By the time the fires were out, more than 80 percent of the city's built-up area h...

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