Mastodawn

City Beautiful blog presents a comprehensive look at Italian contributions to New York's public monuments. The article examines statues of Italian figures like Columbus, Garibaldi, and Verdi, as well as monuments created by Italian and Italian American sculptors and artists.
#NYCHistory #ItalianAmerican #PublicArt #Monuments #ImmigrationHistory #UrbanHistory #CityBeautiful
https://citybeautifulblog.com/italians-in-new-yorks-monuments/

From Invisible To Immortal: Italians In New York’s Monuments — City Beautiful BLOG

New York’s monuments honoring famous Italians, including Verdi, Columbus, Dante and Garibaldi

City Beautiful Blog

YYYY in Canada Jan 30

1811 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history

"I shall[...]facilitate as many good people into the Province as I possibly can" - A #Loyalist recruits people in #Schenectady, N.Y. to move to Upper Canada

https://www.notlmuseum.ca/research/download/81/3/47
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#UpperCanada #ImmigrationHistory

See also: Upper Canada - War of 1812
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/upper-canada

🕵️old klezmers🎻Jan 13

my latest blog post, about several intermarried European Jewish musician families who lived in Egypt and emigrated to New York City in the 1910s and 1920s, becoming members of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society.
https://alte.klezmor.im/2026/01/13/rosenbergs-halmescos-and-brauns-egyptian-families-in-the-p-m-b-s/

#MusicHistory #klezmer #ImmigrationHistory

WYM Mod Jan 2

Discover the surprising origins of US immigration processing! Heather Cox Richardson traces the shift from chaotic state-by-state rules to federal control at Ellis Island, from Lincoln-era encouragement to later exclusionary policies. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-1-2026 #ImmigrationHistory #EllisIsland #USHistory Richardson’s reporting is worth reading.

January 1, 2026

On January 1, 1892, seventeen-year-old Annie Moore walked down the gangway from the steamship Nevada with her two brothers Anthony, eleven, and Philip, nine, and into history as the first person processed through the newly opened Ellis Island Immigrant Station.

Letters from an American

🕵️old klezmers🎻Dec 28

my latest blog post, which feels kinda like a work in progress, but helped me organize some of my ideas about this somewhat cryptic klezmer's mutual aid society.
https://alte.klezmor.im/2025/12/28/some-thoughts-about-the-progressive-musical-benevolent-society/

#klezmer #immigrationHistory #NYhistory #MutualAidHistory #MusicHistory #ResearchBlog

🕵️old klezmers🎻Dec 21

I've mentioned him before but this non-Jewish musician/bandleader born in NYC in 1868, John Ellis, went on a tear of acting as a reference for naturalization applications for Jewish and klezmer musicians around 1920🤓 I still don't know what his connection is to them, like was it an orchestra, professional connection or was it just "oh if you need an American reference this guy'll do it for you"

#genealogy #MusicHistory #ImmigrationHistory

Brewminate Jul 23, 2025

🧱 From 1880 to 1920, immigrants weren’t a side note — they were the foundation.

Factories. Railroads. Textiles. Steel.
The American Industrial Revolution ran on immigration.

https://brewminate.com/immigration-and-the-american-industrial-revolution-from-1880-to-1920/

#Brewminate #ImmigrationHistory #LaborHistory #IndustrialRevolution

Immigration and the American Industrial Revolution from 1880 to 1920

Enormous gains in industrial productivity, accompanied by institutional change and much lower transportation costs, created national markets with goods and people moving in every direction.

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Brewminate Jul 23, 2025

TODAY IN HISTORY: July 23, 1963 – Celler Introduces the INA to Overhaul Immigration

The quota system was racist by design.

Celler knew it.

And on this day, he introduced a bill that dared Congress to tear it down.

The 1965 Act came later — but today was the day the walls cracked.

#Brewminate #ImmigrationHistory #CivilRights #EmanuelCeller #TodayInHistory