![]() ![]() A Wave of Italian ImmigrantsĪn Italian immigrant family, 1911. Then after the Civil War, New England’s mills and factories didn’t have enough workers, so they recruited immigrants from overseas. New York even recruited infantrymen from Italy for its 39 th regiment, also known as the Garibaldi Guard. Boston’s homogeneous and self-contained social life also made it forbidding to outsiders.īut 7,000 Italians fought in the Civil War, and six won the Congressional Medal of Honor. ![]() There was too little land and too little commercial opportunity. Scattered Italian families settled in Boston between the American Revolution and the Civil War, but the city didn’t attract large groups of immigrants then. And beginning in 1871, Gaetano Lanza taught mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 40 years. In 1801, Philip Trajetta founded a music conservatory in Boston, the first in the United States. Italian male socialite professional#They came as well because of a need for their professional skills. Afterward, Italian immigrants came to the United States as political refugees, as missionaries and as explorers. Italians also fought in the American Revolution. That’s because Cabot first explored the mainland in North America in 1497 under the commission of English king Henry VII.Īnd Giovanni di Verrazano explored the Atlantic coast between Florida and New Brunswick. Venetian John Cabot – Giovanni Caboto - and his son Sebastian are the reason Americans speak English. He explored the east coast of South America from 1499 to 1502. America got its name from an Italian, Amerigo Vespucci. The first Italians were explorers, and not just Christopher Columbus. Jefferson then used it in the Declaration of Independence. Italian male socialite free#It read,Īll men are by nature equally free and independent. And Filippo Mazzei, a physician friend of Thomas Jefferson, published a pamphlet that contained a familiar line. Olympic team that defeated the Russians in 1980. Mike Eruzione of Winthrop, Mass., captained the U.S. Providence’s Edward Valenti created the Ginsu knife and the infomercial. Bart Giamatti presided over Yale University and Major League Baseball. Z Poli of New Haven built a chain of vaudeville theaters and Charles Ponzi of Boston’s North End discovered a new form of financial fraud. And they founded the Bank of America, formerly the Bank of Italy. Italian immigrants sculpted the Lincoln Memorial. Italian-AmericansĪnd yet Italian immigrants have contributed to American history and culture in ways that are typically – well, American. More recently John Bello of New Britain created SoBe beverages. And, of course, Frank Pepe in New Haven invented the white clam apizza. ![]() Amato’s Italian delicatessen in Portland, Maine, claims to have originated the Italian sandwich. It also gave us the first Italian café, Café Vittoria, in 1929. Boston’s North End brought us Prince spaghetti, Pastene sauces and Dragone cheese. Italian Americans have undeniably influenced New England’s food history. They happen from Our Lady of Assumption in Portland to St. And tens of thousands attend the region’s 45 summer festas. Any New Englander can recognize the voice of Joe Castiglione or the Magliozzi brothers. Today, the descendants of Italian immigrants make up more than 10 percent of the population of every New England state except Vermont and Maine. Boston’s North End, 1909, by Lewis Wickes Hine. ![]()
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