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Halsted Street: The Rise and Resilience of Chicago's Greektown
For more than a century, a stretch of South Halsted Street on Chicago's Near West Side has been the beating heart of Greek America…
Little Athens on the East River: How Greeks Made Astoria Their Own
Astoria, Queens became the largest Greek community outside of Greece itself by the 1970s, a city within the city where the languag…
Monroe Street: Detroit's Greektown and the Neighborhood That Outlasted the City Around It
Detroit's Greektown was built by immigrants who came for the auto industry and stayed to build churches, restaurants, and a commun…
The Invisible Greektown: Baltimore's Lost Greek Neighborhood and Its Lasting Legacy
Baltimore's Greek community never achieved the fame of Chicago's or Astoria's, but for three decades in the early twentieth centur…
The Sponge Capital of the World: Greek Divers of Tarpon Springs
— Greek Sponge Divers of the Dodecanese Islands, from Kalymnos, Symi, Halki — Dodecanese Islands, Greece
In 1905, Greek sponge divers from the Dodecanese islands of Kalymnos, Symi, and Halki arrived in a small Florida coastal town and…
The Men of Carbon County: Greek Miners in the American West
— Greek Immigrant Miners of Utah, from Crete, Peloponnese, and various regions of Greece
From the villages of Crete and the Peloponnese, thousands of young Greek men came to the coal mines and copper smelters of Utah in…
The Kafeneion: Greek Coffeehouses and the Making of an Immigrant Community
— Greek Immigrant Communities across America, from Various regions of Greece
In every American city where Greeks settled in significant numbers, the coffeehouse was the first institution they built — befor…
The Church as Nation: Greek Orthodoxy and the Immigrant Community
For Greek immigrants in America, the Orthodox church was never simply a place of worship. It was a school, a courthouse, a communi…
The City of Spindles: Greek Women in the Lowell Mills
— Greek Women Mill Workers of Lowell, Massachusetts, from Various regions of Greece
By 1920, Lowell, Massachusetts was home to the third-largest Greek community in the United States. The women who came there — ma…