From 1880 to 1920, Buenos Aires experienced a massive wave of Italian immigration, similar to the one that was happening simultaneously in New York City. "In the 1900s, 12% of Argentinian ...

A Times story in 1880 described immigrants, including Italians, as “links in a descending chain of evolution.” These characterizations reached a defamatory crescendo in an 1882 editorial that ...

5. Italian Immigrants: From Hardships To Success Between 1880 and 1920, over four million Italians immigrated to America, escaping poverty and political turmoil. They settled in urban ...

Many of the Italian immigrants recently landed at this port collected in groups at the Battery and the lower end of Broadway, the greater part of yesterday, and attracted the notice of every ...

Italian food in America was shaped by the immigrants who came from Naples and Sicily between 1880 and 1920, and life in America changed their cooking. In his book America Eats Out, John Mariani notes ...

Millions of Italian immigrants settled in the US ... More than 5 million Italians emigrated to the United States between 1880-1930 — including some 1.5 million from Sicily.

200,000 Italian immigrants came to the U.S. yearly. The quotas allowed only 4,000 Italians and trapped Jews in Europe, many to be incinerated in the Holocaust. In 1880, 50 million people lived in ...

Between 1880 and 1920, some four million Italian immigrants left impoverished towns throughout southern Italy to seek a better life for their families in the U.S. Upon their arrival in America ...

This makes up the largest ethnic group in the state. Between 1880 and 1920, 4 million Italian immigrants entered the United States, most of them taking their first steps on American soil at Ellis ...