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The Italian Americans

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by Maria Laurino


  Torremaggiore, 119

  Torrio, John, 139–40

  Torrisi, Rich, 261

  Toscanini, Arturo, 155, 169–71, 178

  Toscanini, Claudio, 169

  trachoma, 27, 41, 149

  Travolta, John, 238

  Trenton, N.J., 214

  Tresca, Carlo, 121, 163–64, 167–68, 211, 212

  Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 97–98, 131, 133

  Tribbiani, Joey (char.), 238

  Tribuna d’America, La, 163

  Trieste, 146, 148

  Trigiani, Adriana, 11–14

  Trigiani, Viola, 14

  tuberculosis, 44, 148

  Tucci, Stanley, 245

  Turkey, 221

  Turturro, John, 243–45

  Tuscany, 25, 62, 262

  typhoid, 44

  Umbria, 174

  Under the Tuscan Sun (Mayes), 262

  unemployment, 154

  Union army, 29

  unions, 95, 96, 98, 100, 101, 103, 121, 127, 131, 133, 141, 154, 157

  United States Conference of Mayors, 154

  Unto the Sons (Talese), 182

  Uruguay, 19, 24

  Utopian beliefs, 117

  Valachi, Joseph, 228–29, 230, 233

  Valdinoci, Carlo, 122, 123–33

  Vale, Jerry, 198

  Valentino, Rudolph (Rodolfo Guglielmi), 88–89, 107

  Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 118–19, 118, 120–21, 124–26, 125, 127, 128–29, 130, 133, 162

  Vatican, 162

  vendetta, 80

  Venice Biennale, 265, 267–68, 267

  Veniero’s Pastry Shop, 50

  Venturi, Robert, 247

  Verdi, Giuseppe, 61

  Versace, Gianni, 265

  Vestal Lady on Brattle, The (Corso), 213

  Vesuvius, eruption of (1631), 109

  Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, 19, 20, 22, 91, 161

  Vietnam War, 217, 234

  Villafalletto, 119

  vineyards, 65

  Virginia, 133

  “Volare,” 198

  Volstead, Andrew J., 135

  Volstead Act, 135, 151

  Vorse, Mary Heaton, 125

  wages, 5, 18, 19, 40, 41–43, 65, 78, 93, 93, 94, 100, 101, 119, 120

  Walker, Jimmy, 152

  Wallrich, Larry, 219, 220–21

  Wall Street explosions, 124

  War Department, U.S., 185, 186, 187, 192

  War on Poverty, 14

  war production, 176–78, 192, 197

  Washington, Booker T., 30

  Washington, D.C., 122, 147, 148, 153–54

  Washington Square Park, San Francisco, 65

  Wayne, John, 202

  Welsh Americans, 5, 7

  Western Defense Command, 187

  white separatists, 35–36

  Why We Fight, 178

  Wickliffe, John, 35–36

  Wilhelm, Warren, Sr., 252

  Williams, Hank, 207, 208, 209

  Wilson, Woodrow, 129–30, 180, 255

  WNEW, 200

  Wolf, Stewart, 7, 8

  Wood, William Madison, 93, 121

  workers, see laborers

  Works Progress Administration (WPA), 154–55, 154

  World Heritage Site, 26

  World War I, 121, 147–48, 187

  World War II, 173–79, 175, 177, 178, 182, 185–93, 190, 197, 198, 238

  American internment camps of, 185, 186, 186, 187, 188, 188, 192

  American propaganda in, 177–78

  Italian American “two-ness” dilemma during, 173–75, 173, 182–83

  prohibited zones in, 187–88

  relocation program, 186, 187, 188, 189, 192, 193

  women and, 113, 175, 176–77, 179

  Yale, Frank, 138

  Yankees, 190

  Young Italy, 19

  Zaccaro, John, 251

  Zarillo, Carmela, 176

  ALSO BY MARIA LAURINO

  Old World Daughter, New World Mother

  Were You Always an Italian?

  Copyright © 2015 by Maria Laurino and John Maggio

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