italian americans

More than anything else, Rosie wants to be a modern American girl. But it is difficult, when everything around her on Mulberry Street is Italian. When she is chosen to be the queen for a holiday, she surprises everyone.

Pictorial and written record of Italian Americans' experiences, including selections from diaries, letters, memoirs, and newspapers, accompanied by historic photographs and other illustrations.

Frank, a troubled, somewhat desperate, Italo-American, works long hours in the grocery store of a struggling Jewish family in a Brooklyn neighborhood. He develops a secret passion for his employer's attractive daughter.

When she drops out of school and struggles to start a career on Broadway in the fall of 1950, seventeen-year-old Kit Corrigan accepts help from an old family friend, a lawyer said to have ties with the mob, who then asks her to do some favors for him.

An overview of the history and daily lives of Italian people who immigrated to the United States.

Interior designer Bartolomeo di Crespi has picked every decoration in Our Lady of Fatima church in New Jersey, but remodeling the church requires more help, and more ideas. Bartolomeo clashes with another designer, an artist, and a stained-glass craftsman during the project, and their work impacts the community inside the church and out.

Twelve-year-old Diamante and his nine-year-old sister arrive on Ellis Island in 1903 hoping to start a new life and rebuild their family while remaining true to their Italian heritage.

Michael Corleone, youngest son of crime boss Vito Corleone and reigning Don of the Corleone Family, returns from exile in Sicily intending to take over the family organization; however, he must first face his main adversary, Nick Geraci, who worked as a Corleone street enforcer and is every bit as deadly as Michael.