A History Of The Poles In America To 1908 Poles In The Eastern And Southern States
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A History Of The Poles In America To 1908 Poles In The Eastern And Southern States
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Author : Wacław Kruszka
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
A History Of The Poles In America To 1908 Poles In The Eastern And Southern States written by Wacław Kruszka and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Polish Americans categories.
Sons Of The White Eagle In The American Civil War
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Author : Mark F. Bielski
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2016-04-19
Sons Of The White Eagle In The American Civil War written by Mark F. Bielski and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with History categories.
The untold stories of nine Polish Americans who bravely fought in the Civil War—includes photographs, maps, and illustrations. This unique history chronicles the lives of nine Polish American immigrants who fought in the Civil War. Spanning three generations, they are connected by the White Eagle—the Polish coat of arms—and by a shared history in which their home country fell to ruin at the end of the previous century. Still, each carried a belief in freedom that they inherited from their forefathers. More highly trained in warfare than their American brethren—and more inured to struggles for nationhood—the Poles made significant contributions to the armies they served. The first group had fought in the 1830 war for freedom from the Russian Empire. The European revolutionary struggles of the 1840s molded the next generation. The two youngest came of age just as the Civil War began, entering military service as enlisted men and finishing as officers. Of the group, four sided with the North and four with the South, and the ninth began in the Confederate cavalry and finished fighting for the Union side. Whether for the North or the South, they fought for their ideals in America’s greatest conflict. Nominated for the Gilder Lehrman Prize.
Till Death Do Us Part
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Author : Allan Amanik
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2020-03-18
Till Death Do Us Part written by Allan Amanik and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-18 with Social Science categories.
Contributions by Allan Amanik, Kelly B. Arehart, Sue Fawn Chung, Kami Fletcher, Rosina Hassoun, James S. Pula, Jeffrey E. Smith, and Martina Will de Chaparro Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed explores the tendency among most Americans to separate their dead along communal lines rooted in race, faith, ethnicity, or social standing and asks what a deeper exploration of that phenomenon can tell us about American history more broadly. Comparative in scope, and regionally diverse, chapters look to immigrants, communities of color, the colonized, the enslaved, rich and poor, and religious minorities as they buried kith and kin in locales spanning the Northeast to the Spanish American Southwest. Whether African Americans, Muslim or Christian Arabs, Indians, mestizos, Chinese, Jews, Poles, Catholics, Protestants, or various whites of European descent, one thing that united these Americans was a drive to keep their dead apart. At times, they did so for internal preference. At others, it was a function of external prejudice. Invisible and institutional borders built around and into ethnic cemeteries also tell a powerful story of the ways in which Americans have negotiated race, culture, class, national origin, and religious difference in the United States during its formative centuries.
The Most Dangerous German Agent In America
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Author : M. B. B. Biskupski
language : en
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Release Date : 2015-02-28
The Most Dangerous German Agent In America written by M. B. B. Biskupski and has been published by Northern Illinois University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-28 with History categories.
On the morning of April 27, 1935, Louis N. Hammerling fell to his death from the nineteenth floor of an apartment in New York City, where he lived alone. Hammerling was one of the most influential Polish immigrants in turn-of-the-century America and the leading voice and advocate of the Eastern Europeans who had come to the country seeking a better life. He was also a pathological liar, a crook, a swindler, a ruthless entrepreneur, and a patriot—of which nation he could never decide. In the United States, Hammerling rose from the poverty of his youth to the heights of wealth and power. He was a timberman and mule driver in the Pennsylvania coal mines, an indentured worker in the Hawaiian sugar fields, one of the major behind-the-scenes powers in the United Mine Workers, an employee of the Hearst newspaper chain, an influential figure in the Republican Party, the owner of an advertising agency that made him a millionaire, a correspondent of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, and a senator of the Polish Republic. A Jew whose conversion to Catholicism did not protect him from anti-Semitism, Hammerling was monitored by state and federal agencies and was, in the words of his pursuers, "the most dangerous German agent in America." M. B. B. Biskupski consulted more than forty archives in four countries, using trial testimony, intelligence reports, and blackmail correspondence to reconstruct Hammerling's story. The life of this mysterious man offers a window through which to see larger themes: labor and immigration politics in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, espionage during World War I, the birth of modern Polish politics, and the tragic struggle of a poor immigrant striving for success in America. Scholars and general readers alike will be interested in this fascinating book.
Henry Clay Frick And The Golden Age Of Coal And Coke 1870 1920
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Author : Cassandra Vivian
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-04-09
Henry Clay Frick And The Golden Age Of Coal And Coke 1870 1920 written by Cassandra Vivian and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-09 with History categories.
Once the beehive coke oven was perfected in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, the coal and coke industry began to flourish and supply other fledgling industries with the fuel they needed to succeed. The thrust of this growth came from Henry Clay Frick, who opened his first coal mines in the Morgan Valley of Fayette County in 1871. There, he helped lead the industry, making it the major developmental force in industrial America. This book traces the birth and growth of the early coal and coke industry from 1870 to 1920, primarily in Fayette and Westmoreland Counties. Beyond Frick's importance to the industry, other major topics covered in this history include the lives and struggles of the miners and immigrants who worked in the industry, the growth of unions and the many strikes in the region, and the attempts to clean the surrounding waterways from the horrific pollution that resulted from industrial development. Perhaps the most significant fact is that this book uses primary sources contemporary with the golden age of the coal and coke industry. That effort offers an alternative view and helps repair the common portrayal of Frick as corrupt by showing his work as that of an industrial genius.
A History Of The Poles In America To 1908
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Author : Wacław Kruszka
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
A History Of The Poles In America To 1908 written by Wacław Kruszka and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
This is the fourth and final volume of the translation of Father Waclaw Kruszka's history of the Poles in the United States. Concentrating on the Polish settlements in the central states - Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas - and the far western states, Kruszka continues his study of the largest Slavic group of the turn-of-the-century immigration. The volume includes an extensive index of all volumes in the series.
A History Of The Poles In America To 1908
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Author : Wacław Kruszka
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
A History Of The Poles In America To 1908 written by Wacław Kruszka and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Polish Americans categories.
Polish American Studies
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Polish American Studies written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Polish Americans categories.
Poles In Illinois
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Author : John Radzilowski
language : en
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-14
Poles In Illinois written by John Radzilowski and has been published by Southern Illinois University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-14 with History categories.
Illinois boasts one of the most visible concentrations of Poles in the United States. Chicago is home to one of the largest Polish ethnic communities outside Poland itself. Yet no one has told the full story of our state’s large and varied Polish community—until now. Poles in Illinois is the first comprehensive history to trace the abundance and diversity of this ethnic group throughout the state from the 1800s to the present. Authors John Radzilowski and Ann Hetzel Gunkel look at family life among Polish immigrants, their role in the economic development of the state, the working conditions they experienced, and the development of their labor activism. Close-knit Polish American communities were often centered on parish churches but also focused on fraternal and social groups and cultural organizations. Polish Americans, including waves of political refugees during World War II and the Cold War, helped shape the history and culture of not only Chicago, the “capital” of Polish America, but also the rest of Illinois with their music, theater, literature, food. With forty-seven photographs and an ample number of extensive excerpts from first-person accounts and Polish newspaper articles, this captivating, highly readable book illustrates important and often overlooked stories of this ethnic group in Illinois and the changing nature of Polish ethnicity in the state over the past two hundred years. Illinoisans and Midwesterners celebrating their connections to Poland will treasure this rich and important part of the state’s history.
The Polish American Encyclopedia
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Author : James S. Pula
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2010-12-22
The Polish American Encyclopedia written by James S. Pula and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-22 with Reference categories.
At least nine million Americans trace their roots to Poland, and Polish Americans have contributed greatly to American history and society. During the largest period of immigration to the United States, between 1870 and 1920, more Poles came to the United States than any other national group except Italians. Additional large-scale Polish migration occurred in the wake of World War II and during the period of Solidarity's rise to prominence. This encyclopedia features three types of entries: thematic essays, topical entries, and biographical profiles. The essays synthesize existing work to provide interpretations of, and insight into, important aspects of the Polish American experience. The topical entries discuss in detail specific places, events or organizations such as the Polish National Alliance, Polish American Saturday Schools, and the Latimer Massacre, among others. The biographical entries identify Polish Americans who have made significant contributions at the regional or national level either to the history and culture of the United States, or to the development of American Polonia.