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 IT IS IRONIC THAT ITALY, the classic land for expatriates, `was the greatest of Europe' semigrating countries. While she was being discovered by a flood of foreign poets, painters and musicians in search of peace and inspiration, her own children were streaming away from her shores in search of bread. Foreign visitors settled for a season, a span of years, a lifetime; so too did the people who left. Italy's reputation as a haven for the artist rested on the example of a handful of famous people: Keats and Shelley, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Wagner and Musset, Gogol and Ruskin. |
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 It the end-of-millennium and 150 years after the extraordinary "Californian Gold Rush," which in the 19th century changed California and the other states of America, we would like to reveal the stories of the many Italians who took part in this fundamental moment in the history of North America.
Those Italians who lived the "Gold Rush" brought their own culture along with them into the states, thus contributing to the making of the modern Californian life-style and culture.
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Italians in the gold rush and beyond - A multimedia oral history project |
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 Sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome, the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles, the University of Florence and California State University Long Beach, “Italians in the Gold Rush and Beyond” is an extensive project based on the history of Italians on the West Coast from the beginning of the Gold Rush Era (1848) up to the present. The project intends to recover this important historical heritage and to document it via an on-line database.
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