Category:Italian American Studies (History)

Italian American Studies (History)

Timeline

The Birth of the Nation

• 1841 - Congrega Centrale della Giovine Italia per l'America del Nord (New York)

Civil War

• 1861[-1865] - The Garibaldi Guard

• 1878 - Mazzini Monument at Central Park (New York)

The Great Migration

• 1880[-1988] - Il Progresso Italo-Americano
• 1881 - Dante society of America
• 1888 - Giuseppe Garibaldi Monument in Washington Square Park (New York)
• 1888 - The Church of St. Anthony of Padua (New York)
• 1888[-1967] - St. Joachim Church

• 1890[-1923] - The St. Raphael Society for the Protection of Italian Immigrants
• 1891 - New Orleans Lynchings
• 1892[-1954] - Ellis Island (New York)
• 1891 - St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi Church (Philadelphia)
• 1892 - Columbus Monument in Columbus Circle *New York)
• 1892 - Columbus Monument in Wooster Square (New Haven, CT) [removed in 2020]
• 1893 - Francesco Saverio Fava becomes the first Italian Ambassador to the United States.

• 1901 - Garibaldi Monument in Lincoln Park (Chicago) [relocated in 1981 in Garibaldi Park]]
• 1905 - Order Sons of Italy in America
• 1905 - Giuseppe Verdi Monument in Verdi Square (New York)
• 1907 - Monongah Mining Disaster (Monongah, WV)
• 1909 - Holy Rosary Church (Cleveland, OH)
• 1909 - Giovanni da Verrazzano Monument in Battery Park (New York)
• 1909 - Guglielmo Marconi Nobel Prize

• 1910 - Holy Family Church (Detroit, MI)
• 1912 - Lawrence Textile Strike (Lawrence, MA)
• 1912 - Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

• 1920-1927 - Sacco Vanzetti Trial
• 1921 - Dante Monument in Dante Park (New York) & in Meridian Hill Park (Washington)
• 1922 - UNICO National
• 1923 - Eleonora Duse Time Cover
• 1923 - Giulio Gatti-Casazza Time Cover
• 1923 - American Association of Teachers of Italian
• 1924 - Immigration Act

Fascism & Antifascism

• 1924-1929 - Fascist League of North America
• 1926 - Feast of San Gennaro (New York)
• 1926 [-2020] - Columbus Monument (Hartford, CT)
• 1927 - Casa Italiana (Columbia University, New York)
• 1927 [-2020] - Columbus Monument (Richmond, VA)
• 1928 - Our Lady of Pompeii Church (New York)
• 1933-1934 - The Italian Pavilion at the Chicago World's Fair (Chicago, IL)
• 1933 - Decennial Air Cruise (Chicago-New York)
• 1934 - Balbo Monument (Chicago)
• 1938 - Enrico Fermi Nobel Prize

World War 2

• 1938-1940 - Italian-Jewish Refugees
• 1939-1943 - Mazzini Society
• 1941-1943 - Internment of Italian Americans
• 1942-1946 - Italian WW2 POWs

The Italian American Experience

• 1948 - < Vittorio De Sica 1st Oscar >

• 1950 - < Vittorio De Sica 2nd Oscar >
• 1956 - < Anna Magnani Oscar >
• 1957 - < Federico Fellini 1st Oscar >
• 1958 - < Federico Fellini 2nd Oscar >
• 1959 - Emilio G. Segrè Nobel Prize

• 1962 - Sophia Loren Oscar
• 1962 - Sophia Loren Time Cover
• 1964 - < Federico Fellini 3rd Oscar >
• 1965 - < Vittorio De Sica 3rd Oscar >
• 1965 - Immigration Act
• 1969 - Salvatore Luria Nobel Prize

• 1972 - < Vittorio De Sica 4th Oscar >
• 1975 - < Federico Fellini 4th Oscar >
• 1975 - Renato Dulbecco Nobel
• 1977 - Joe DiMaggio Medal of Freedom

• 1985 - Franco Modigliani Nobel Prize
• 1985 - Rita Levi-Montalcini Modigliani Nobel

The Intellectual Migration (Dual Citizenship)

• 1988 - Register of Italians residing abroad (AIRE)

• 1992 - Recognition of Dual Citizenship
• 1999 - Roberto Benigni Oscar

• 2001 - Voting rights of Italians residing abroad
• 2001 - September 11 Attacks (among the 3,000 victims were at least 10 Italians, 27 with dual citizenship, and over 200 Americans of Italian descent)
• 2002 - Riccardo Giacconi Nobel Prize
• 2007 - Morricone Honorary Oscar
• 2007 - Mario Capecchi Nobel Prize
• 2007 - Italian Scientists & Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF)

• 2014 - Sorrentino Oscar
• 2014 - Tosi Honorary Oscar

• 2020 - Wertmuller Honorary Oscar

• 2022 - Carolyn Bertozzi Nobel Prize