In the last, rootless decade families, neighborhoods, and communities have disintegrated in the face of gripping social, economic, and technological changes. Th

This rich collection brings together the work of eight leading scholars to examine the history of Polish-American workers, women, families, and politics.

Pacyga chronicles more than a century of immigration, and later emigration back to Poland, showing how the community has continually redefined what it means to

The Polish American community has long been identified with three characteristics that the early immigrants brought with them to America, writes Pula: "an affec

An account of the ethnic Polish immigrants who left Upper Silesia, then part of Prussia, and settled in Texas in the 1850s. They formed the first organized Poli