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Seward House Museum Facilities Manager Andrew Roblee will give a talk about "Italians in the Civil War" at 7 p.m. Monday, May 4, in Father Nacca Hall at St. Francis of Assisi Church, 301 Clark St., Auburn.   Using archives from the museum, Roblee will talk about William Seward's role preparing for and encouraging immigration, as well as the...

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News 8's celebration of Italian in Connecticut continues today! Today our journey takes us to Hartford from women paving the way in leadership roles to pastries just like Nonna made. Hartford looks a lot different now than it did when many Italian immigrants came here. A hundred years ago, the Front Street neighborhood was mostly Italian. &nb...

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by Ben Lariccia   Though postwar U.S.A. experienced a depression that lasted until 1921, the severe economic and social upheavals that hit Italy in the wake of WWI had little parallel in the U.S. In fact, the period of the 1920s was one of general prosperity—the Roaring Twenties— that aided greatly in the Americanization of immigrant communi...

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Questa mattina, a Sant'Egidio, nella sala della pace si è svolta la conferenza Migrazioni e integrazione, Stati Uniti ed Italia: due modelli a confronto. Il presidente della Comunità di Sant'Egidio, Marco Impagliazzo, aprendo i lavori, ha osservato che Sant’Egidio rappresenta “un laboratorio privilegiato, con vari decenni di esperienza, nell’accogl...

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Feuding at home brought many Italians to Louisiana in the middle 1850s. A good number of them used ties to the old country to establish themselves in food distribution businesses, first in New Orleans, then across south Louisiana.   Most of the Italians who came here during that era were from Sicily, many of them fleeing after the failure of...

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Sicily, 1935: Sarina, a young woman with three children, gives up her young daughter Tina to her aunt Vittoria, who lives in a different town, with no apparent explanation. The child, just four, at first is intrigued by the move, which she believes to be a summer vacation, but slowly reality settles in and her journey into abandonment begins. &nbs...

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  WTI Magazine #44    2014 October, 1Author : Joe Carella      Translation by:   Ever since the Italian American Museum (IAM) in New York City's Little Italy put the original shipbuilder's model of the SS Giuseppe Verdi on exhibit in May, it has been searching nationally for passengers who might still be alive and who were among the more than 70...

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Sul sito istituzionale del Consiglio regionale della Basilicata è stato pubblicato, nella sezione "Approfondimenti", un reportage, una galleria fotografica e un servizio filmato su Charles Paterno, un emigrante di Castelmezzano che nell'America contagiata dal "mal della pietra" costruì un vero e proprio impero del cemento, contribuendo all'evoluzio...

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WTI Magazine #8    2013 Dec, 6 Author : Paolo Battaglia      Translation by:   November 27, 1872 - Sister Blandina Segale went to a mission in Trinidad, ColoradoSister Blandina Segale was born Rosa Maria Segale near Genoa, and was four years old when she came to Ohio.As a young nun, Segale was sent to Trinidad, Colo...

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by Don H. Doyle   In the summer of 1861, an American diplomat in Turin, Italy, looked out the window of the U.S. legation to see hundreds of young men forming a sprawling line. Some wore red shirts, emblematic of the Garibaldini who, during their campaign in southern Italy, were known for pointing one finger in the air and shouting l'It...

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