italian americans

Surveys Italian immigrants and their descendants on farms, in cities, and in small towns from the colonial period to the present.

A twelve-year-old girl sees her family differently when faced with problems at her new school and near home.

Peppe's father is upset when he learns that Peppe has taken a job lighting the gas street lamps in his New York City neighborhood.

Lucia Santa and her six children living in New York's Hell's Kitchen at the beginning of the Great Depression make choices about their assimilation into American culture, including the choice of her oldest son to join the Mafia.

In the years surrounding World War II, a gritty Italian American waterfront community in the shadow of New York City known as Narrows Gate is home to Bebe Marsala, a crooner bent on success, Sal Benno a young man who is trapped by the mob and his friend Leo Bell, a new member of the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the CIA. They have no idea what the future holds nor how it will tear them apart.