Age of Discovery and early settlement
Italian navigators and explorers played a key role in the exploration and settlement of the Americas by Europeans. Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus (Italian: Cristoforo Colombo See more

During the period of mass immigration to the United States, Italians suffered widespread discrimination in housing and employment. They … See more

Little Italies were, to a considerable extent, the result of Italophobia. The ethnocentrism and anti-Catholicism exhibited by the earlier Anglo-Saxon and northern European settlers helped to … See more

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Italian Americans have influenced the American culture and society in a variety of ways, such as: foods, coffees and desserts; wine production (in California and elsewhere in the U.S.); popular music, starting in the 1940s and 1950s, and continuing into the … See more

In the 2000 U.S. census, Italian Americans constituted the fifth largest ancestry group in America with about 15.6 million people, 5.6% of the total U.S. population. Sicilian Americans are the largest subset of numerous Americans of regional Italian ancestries, with … See more

• Alba, Richard D. Italian Americans: Into the twilight of ethnicity (Prentice Hall, 1985)
• Baily, Samuel L. Immigrants in the Lands of Promise: … See more