Students in Economics, History and Political Science Professor Teresa Fava Thomas' Italian American History course learn about the immigration identity of Italian immigrants in America during World War II. The course examines the history of Italians in America and seeks to explain the causes and consequences of immigration, both at the national level and a personal level. Topics will include an examination of the unification of Italy and the conditions which impelled mass migration, regional differences and various responses to economic development in the late 19th and 20th centuries, the experience of migration and the adjustment to life in America.
