“Every aspect of the American economy has benefited from the contributions of immigrants.” President John F. Kennedy said that and he was right. The stories we have chosen to publish in this fifth edition testify to this. They are stories of immigrants from Southern Italy, Mexico, Armenia, Spain and Iran, who have built their lives […]
Neapolitans – Letter from Stuttgart.
According to the Institute for Ethnic Studies for the Hystorical Society in Pennsylvania the earlier arrivals to Philadelphia, from Italy, were primarily from the Northern regions of Italy, and the majority who arrived at the beginning of 1880s were from South Italy. Indeed, until the unification of Italy under the Kingdom of Savoys, the overseas […]