But starting in the second half of the 19th century, as more Irish and Italians immigrated to America, they embraced Columbus as a pathway to validate their burgeoning communities. San Francisco’s Italian Americans celebrated their first Columbus Day in 1869. In New York City, the earliest evid...
Quiet Man.’ These ideologies of IrishCultureoriginated with the British‚ were the Irish were viewed as mischievous‚ dark and behind times. These feelings were carried across when a lot of British immigrated to America. Another trait that the Irish were unfairly branded with is their ...
built the first monasteries, established the now defunct Irish Othordox Church. That is part of why you have so many Black Saints in Irish Christianity.
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Many German farmers couldn't make enough to survive, but America was a different story. A farmer who had only half a hectare (about 1.2 acres) of land in Germanycould own 64 hectares(158 acres) of land in the US after just a decade in the country, according to a site run by th...
1880s when immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe surpassed Germans and Irish in numbers. Unlike other immigrants at that times, most Germans came to America to pursue an agricultural lifestyle as their American dreams rather than swarm into cities, many of them dreaming of cultivating on ...
I would get frustrated when I couldn’t find what I was looking for, only to realize years later as I studied actual historical records what actually goes into building such databases And let’s not discuss how many “hints” I accepted that were for completely different people and families!
whichdenied the rightto own, lease, or “otherwise enjoy” land to people ineligible for citizenship, giving Armenians the edge on some of their fellow immigrants. Over time, thisaccessto land ownership and housing loans allowed many Armenians to become relativelywealthy farmersin places like Fres...
For example, in the mid-nineteenth century, many Irish workers moved to the DuPage region to help dig the Illinois and Michigan Canal, which connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River and helped establish the region as a national transportation hub (as it continues to be today). As...
through birthright. Let’s say for example your parents or grandparents came from another country and because of that country’s laws, you qualify for citizenship there as well. This can all get very complicated, but you see it a lot with people of Italian, Irish or other European descent....