Explorers Emigrants Citizens: A Visual History of the Italian American Experience

Explorers Emigrants Citizens: A Visual History of the Italian American Experience by Osborne, Linda Barrett. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9788896408148.

For this book, the authors have selected 500 images related to the rich history of Italian Americans from the Library of Congresss holdings of photographs, maps, posters, letters, films, and sound recordings. The books narration is supported by never-before-seen images and offers a fresh and original perspective on the whole experience of Italians in America, from Columbus until today. It shows the accomplishments of well-remembered individuals such as Fiorello LaGuardia, Vince Lombardi, Martin Scorsese, but goes deeper to rediscover people like Giacomo Beltrami, who reached the sources of the Mississippi in 1823 and Joe Petrosino, the first Italian American police officer to lose his life fighting organised crime. Through photographs of Lewis Hine and others, we see how Italians lived in slums in Eastern cities, in fields and mines in rural America; finally, we see how Italians portrayed America through the works of artists like Carlo Gentile, who photographed south-western Native A