Starting in the nineteenth century, Irish Americans and Italian Americans found themselves at odds: in the Catholic Church, on the waterfront, at construction sites, and…

From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on American shores. In Immigrants…

In The Heart and the Island (SUNY Press, 2015), Chiara Mazzucchelli explores the bond between Sicilian American writers and the island of Sicily. Throughout the…

The events of Risorgimento Italy provoked political migrations. In the United States, Risorgimento exiles played an essential part in the birth of the Italian American…

The Italian nation-state has been defined in part by practices of mobility. Tourists have flowed into the country from the Grand Tour era to the…

Saladin Ambar’s American Cicero (Oxford University Press, 2017) traces Mario Cuomo’s rise through the rough-and-tumble world of New York City politics to become its liberal champion. A…

Elizabeth Zanoni, Old Dominion University Italian immigrants to the United States and Argentina hungered for the products of home: Merchants imported Italian cheese, wine, olive…

Andrea L. Dottolo, Rhode Island College Carol Dottolo, retired educator, Liverpool Central School District, New York In the narratives collected in Italian American Women, Food,…

Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas, Harvard Law School When the United States entered World War II, it subjected Italian nationals living within its borders to legal…

Teresa Fiore Montclair State University By examining Italy’s long history of worldwide emigration in light of the country’s own colonial legacies and the contemporary transnational…