The story of the United States is inseparable from the stories of those who came to its shores seeking opportunity, freedom, and a place to build a life. Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more than four million Italians made that journey, leaving behind rural villages, political unrest, … Read More

When we picture the founding of the United States, we often imagine powdered wigs, quills on parchment, and fiery speeches delivered by American-born patriots. However many of those who shaped the country’s earliest days, and informed what the country would become, were immigrants. Foreign-born soldiers, thinkers, and statesmen brought with … Read More