Topic
8 stories from Amerigo.
America · Columbus Day
Before October 12, 1492, humanity lived as two worlds that didn't know the other existed. A weaver's son from Genoa sailed into the unknown and brought them together.
America · Italian American Heritage
The son of a Ligurian farmer lent to the immigrants other banks ignored, rescued his depositors’ money from the 1906 fire, and built the biggest bank in the world. Then he died with almost nothing.
America · Heritage
In 1942, while their sons fought for the United States, some 600,000 Italian immigrants were branded enemy aliens — placed under curfew, forced from their homes and, in some cases, locked away. For decades, almost no one talked about it.
America · Heritage
She arrived in New York in 1889 with six sisters, little English and no welcome. By her death, Frances Xavier Cabrini had built dozens of schools, orphanages and hospitals across the Americas — and become the first U.S. citizen named a saint.
America · History
He did not discover the New World, and he never asked to have it named after him. But a Florentine merchant’s insistence that the lands across the Atlantic were something entirely new changed how Europe understood the planet.
Ideas · History
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) stands as one of history’s most extraordinary figures—a military genius, visionary statesman, and transformative leader whose impact continues to resonate more than two centuries after his death.
Culture · Food
For the vast majority of human history—roughly 99% of it—people ate what nature provided, when it provided it.
Culture · Roots
The blues is quintessentially American—an African American creation born from the pain of slavery, sharecropping, and the Mississippi Delta, with roots in field hollers, spirituals, work songs, and West African rhythms.
