Between 1880 and 1915, more than 13 million people left Italy for the Americas, North and South, in search of a better life. It was the largest exodus ever recorded from any country in history. Mark Choate, professor of history at Brigham Young University, discussed this mass emigration and its importance to the development of the newly created Italian state. The author of “Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad,” Prof. Choate spoke at the Philip V. Cannistraro Seminar Series in Italian American Studies at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College, about how Italy struggled to adapt as immigrants formed “Little Italies,” abroad. “What we see, with this vast emigration and the Italian states initiatives, is a ‘global nation’ in the making.