The italian diaspora archive map (IDARM) project [the senator john heinz history center seeks support for a foundations-level project to make visible, searchable, and accessible to researchers,…

The italian diaspora archive map (IDARM) project [the senator john heinz history center seeks support for a foundations-level project to make visible, searchable, and accessible to researchers, educators, students, and the general public the wealth of archival materials related to the italian diasporic experience in the PA-WV-OH TRI-state region. This region of the united states is home to a high concentration of americans of italian descent whose ancestors immigrated during the great immigration and post-wwii periods to work in the industrial complex. Due to the size of the italian american community, extensive material culture has been deposited into a variety of repositories and archives across the TRI-state region. An informal network has existed for five years among archivists and librarians as well as researchers and academics working in italian and italian american studies, but no overarching framework has existed to capture the full breadth of the resources available within our cultural geographic footprint.]