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Italians Helped Shape the Nation
April 12 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Many Italians came to the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s, but they were not the first Italian immigrants to America. Historian Tom Frascella will speak about the earliest cohorts who came to the U.S., highlighting the Italian immigrants whose labor and skills helped establish the early success of the Jamestown colony in the 1600s and contributions in the 1700s from figures such as Filippo Mazzei, who inspired language for the Declaration of Independence, and Giovanni Battiste Sartori, who acted as an envoy from the Vatican Papal States to the consulate in Trenton.