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		BCT Online - Internet Services ^Votes:0 Network Alert! 05/31/07: We will be performing system maintenance starting at 12:00AM on Thursday May 31st and concluding around 8:00AM May 31st . Brief service disruptions may occur during this period while we perform the maintenance. --> The Internet is your gateway to a world of information. At BCT Online, we keep you connected with the most reliable equipment and local customer service available. We have all the benefits of nationwide providers and more. Sign up today and experience the difference. For more information contact us at 503.632.3113. Copyright © 2003 BCT Online \| Web design by Gravitate Design Studio \| Terms & Conditions \| Contact Us Read More Go to Site


		CNN - 'Secret' of WWII: Italian-Americans forced to move - September 21, 1997 ^Votes:0 'Secret' of WWII: Italian-Americans forced to move Were branded 'enemy aliens' September 21, 1997 Web posted at: 7:53 p.m. EDT (2353 GMT) SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) -- More than 50 years after World War II, there is one incident from that era that remains in the shadows -- the forced relocation of some U.S. residents of Italian ancestry from their homes. Now, some Italian-Americans believe the federal government needs to own up to that history. A bill introduced in Congress would force the government to disclose all that it knows about the episode. "We're not asking for monetary compensation," says Rose Scudero , who was 12 when she and her mother , who was an Italian citizen, were forced to leave their home. "We want it documented. We want the government to acknowledge it happened." In the hyste Read More Go to Site

		Consorzio Cal-Italia Italian-American Vintners in California ^Votes:0 Dick Dick Rosano is a widely published Maryland wine writer and author of Wine Heritage, The History of Italian-American Vintners, published by the Wine Appreciation Guild (800-242-9462). Drive down the wine roads of California and you may think you've slipped onto a movie set from La Dolce Vita. The Italian names that adorn the winery signs throughout America's western regions lend a melodic quality to the tour guides' narrative and stand as a constant reminder of the contribution of Italian-Americans in the growth of what is now an internationally renowned American wine industry. But the Mondavis, Gallos, Coppolas, Pedroncellis, Pepis, Sebastianis and Martinis didn't just appear on the scene when the rest of America discovered wine in the 1970s. As early as 1766, Dr. Andrew Turnbull brou Read More Go to Site

		Italian American Studies Manifesto ^Votes:0 Beyond the Basement: A Manifesto for Italian American Studies by Fred Gardaph? When Niccol? Machiavelli penned his masterpiece, The Prince , Italy was a land divided and besieged by many foreign forces. In his last chapter, "An Exhortation to free Italy from the Hands of the Barbarians," he calls for new weapons and formations to be used in warding off intruders and to prepare for new leadership of Italy. In many ways, the current state of Italian American culture is in similar straights. We need new tools and new alliances to bring a sense of unification to our culture so that we can ward off the siege of total assimilation. A culture is based on shared traditions created over time which are reenacted regularly so that they become rituals. These traditions are transmitted throug Read More Go to Site

		Italian Americans Presentation ^Votes:0 Italian Americans Presentation Reasons for Immigration America is the land of possibilities where people can start low on the social ladder and work upwards to become successful. Their children will live better lives than their parents and the American dream will live. The statue of liberty stands strong, welcoming all under her care. Ellis Island is where many came and first stepped foot in their country to be. Italian immigration to America began very early on. Small amounts came to the colonies before the 1800's. These people contributed many things to the Americas such as introducing their techniques of wine making and Italian agriculture methods. My Italian ancestors who came to America fled their home country for reasons similar to the Irish Catholics. There were agricultural pr Read More Go to Site

		Italian Immigration ^Votes:0 Italian Immigration Spartacus , USA History , British History , Second World War , First World War , Germany , Immigration to the USA , Slavery , Civil Rights , Civil War , Author , Search Website , Email There was little Italian emigration to the United States before 1870. However, Italy was now one of the most overcrowded countries in Europe and many began to consider the possibility of leaving Italy to escape low wages and high taxes. Most of these immigrants were from rural communities with very little education. From 1890 to 1900, 655,888 arrived in the United States, of whom two-thirds were men. A survey carried out that most planned to return once they had built up some capital. Most Italians found unskilled work in America's cities. There were large colonies in New York , Philadelp Read More Go to Site

		Italian Texans ^Votes:0 Until the mid-19th century, Italians coming to the Texas area were adventurers, explorers, or soldiers. Italian explorers, from the 15th and 16th centuries, were well known indeed, but none came in the service of an Italian city or province. In the mid-16th centuryand for many years before and afterthe Italian peninsula was a mass of republics, city-states, kingdoms, and duchies. Some enjoyed fair economic independence, but none could mount New World exploration like Spain and Portugal. Thus, adventurous Italian soldiers and sailors took employment elsewhere. According to some documentation, Amerigo Vespucci saw the coast of future Texas in 1497 while determining for Ferdinand of Aragon whether the new lands of Columbus were Asiaor an unknown continent. Vespucci did not c Read More Go to Site

		Italian-Americans In The Civil War ^Votes:0 Italian-Americans in the Civil War Between the Census of 1850 and the Census of 1860, the number of Italians emigrating to America jumped by 7,000, so that on the eve of the Civil War just over 11,000 Americans listed themselves as having been born in Italy. Many of them came to escape from stifling poverty, only to find it pursued them to the crowded cities of the East Coast of the United States; still others came to find freedom from the oppression of the Roman Catholic Church, which was trying to enforce orthodoxy upon its believers. Most Italians were simply looking for peace, for their homeland was torn by wars of its own. New York City was the destination of the majority of Italian immigrants. There, they found many of their own people already established; the language was familiar a Read More Go to Site

		Utah History Encyclopedia ^Votes:0 ITALIANS IN UTAH Italian Lodge parade, Bingham, 1909 Italian immigration was one of the largest influxes of southern and eastern European groups into Utah. While some Protestant Waldensians from northern Italy had immigrated in the 1870s after being converted by the Mormon missionary program, the bulk of Italians came to Utah during the period from the 1890s to the 1920s in response to demands for unskilled labor in the mining and railroad industries. Italians came primarily from the regions of Piemonte, Veneto (Tyroleans), Abruzzi, Lazio (Romans), Calabria, and Sicilia. Immigrants mainly were attracted to four counties, Carbon, Salt Lake, Tooele, and Weber. Coal mining, metal mining, work in mills, smelters, and refineries, railroading, farming and ranching, and involvement in service-rel Read More Go to Site

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