The art of cooking has always been part of the Italian domestic landscape.

Few European immigrant groups have faced as much ethnic prejudice as Italians.

An important center of Italian immigrant life has been the family.

Historically, most Italians have been Roman Catholics, and immigrants have continued in that religious faith in the United States.

Anti-Italian sentiments among native-born Americans grew along with the burgeoning numbers of Italian immigrants.

The political unification of Italy in 1879 did not bring better lives to the majority of Italians, who began to emigrate in large numbers to Brazil, Argentina, and the United States.

Immigration from Italy to the United States was only a trickle before the 1880’s.

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw a large-scale influx of Italian immigrants to the United States.

During the last three decades of the twentieth century, the United States began welcoming a new great wave of immigrants.

The Civil War was enormously destructive, but it also helped to stimulate the American economy and to push the United States toward more industrialization.

By 1860, a year before the Civil War broke out, well over 1.5 million people born in Ireland were living in the United States.

Movement from Ireland to the United States continued into the nineteenth century and began to increase in response to new opportunities.

The majority of the Irish in America before the nineteenth century were those who later became known as Scotch-Irish, descendants of people from Scotland who had moved to the northern part of Ireland in earlier centuries.

During the early nineteenth century, Ireland was one of the main sources of immigration to the United States.

Directed and cowritten by groundbreaking film artist Charles Chaplin, The Immigrant depicts obstacles and triumphs associated with the immigrant experience.

Director George Stevens’s I Remember Mama offers an amiable portrayal of early twentieth century Norwegian immigrants, revealing their daily challenges, lighthearted moments, and career aspirations.

Although most Hungarians who emigrated to the United States arrived between 1890 and the start of World War I in 1914, the most significant Hungarian immigration took place during the 1930’s.

One of the most politically influential immigrants of the early twenty-first century, Huffington has established herself as a centrist within a variety of media, including the World Wide Web, and named one of Time magazine’s one hundred most influential people in 2006.

During World War II and the years leading up to it, European Jews were the principal victims of German chancellor Adolf Hitler’s genocidal policies. Many fled eastern and western Europe, attempting to enter the United States.

In 1938, shortly before he died, social historian Marcus Lee Hansen revolutionized the understanding of the assimilation of immigrant generations into American life by suggesting that assimilation and ethnic identity within the so-called melting pot of America were far more complex than had been assumed.

From 1881 until 1914, the Hamburg-Amerika Line was the largest shipping line in existence.

Originally an impoverished Jewish peddler from Switzerland, Guggenheim built a worldwide mining conglomerate after immigrating to the United States.

The third person hired by the cofounders of the Intel Corporation, the Hungarian-bornGrove rose relatively quickly to the company’s top management position.

Although Greeks have accounted for a relatively small percentage of the total immigrants to the United States, they have formed strong ethnic communities that have kept alive their language, traditions, and religion. Persons of Greek ancestry account for 0.4 percent of the current population of the United States.

One of the single-most influential events in U.S. immigration history, Ireland’s great potato famine induced a massive wave of Irish emigration to Great Britain, Canada, and the United States, where Irish immigrants quickly became the nation’s second-largest ethnic group.