Books on Polish History
Collection prepared by
Krzysztof Jeżewski and Valerie Warunek
Books on Polish history
Davies, Norman - God’s Playground (1 & 2)
Davies, Norman - Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present
Davies, Norman - Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe. (Chapter 5: Litva - A Grand Duchy with Kings (1253-1795). Chapter 9: Galicia - Kingdom of the Naked and Starving 1773-1918)
Faber, Don - The Toledo War: The First Michigan-Ohio Rivalry
Gutkowski, Jerzy. 1997. The Polish Sejm. Warsaw: Sejm Pub. Office
Hodorowicz-Knab, Sophie - Wearing the Letter P
Kochanski, Halik - The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War
Kowalski, Stanley J. - No Place to Call Home
Kurek, Ewa - Your Life Is Worth Mine
Lehmann, Rosa - Symbiosis and Ambivalence
Lukas, Richard C. - Forgotten Holocaust
Lukowski, Jerzy, and Hubert Zawadzki. 2007. A Concise History of Poland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Miłosz, Rev. Bogdan - Immigration Separation Healing
Olson, Stanley and Cloud, Lynne - For Your Freedom and Ours
Orr, Aileen - Wojtek The Bear - Polish War Hero
Perry, Michael W. - Dachau Liberated
Porter, Jane. 1895. Thaddeus of Warsaw. New York: New York Pub. Co.
Reilly, Diana Howansky - Scattered: The Forced Relocation of Poland’s Ukrainians after World War II
Reymont, Władysław Stanisław. 1942. The Peasants. New York: Knopf.
Saidel, Rochelle G. - Mielec, Poland: the Shtetl That Became A Nazi Concentration Camp
Słomka, Jan. 1941. From Serfdom to Self-Government: Memoirs of a Polish Village Mayor, 1842-1927. London: Minerva Pub. Co.
Snyder, Timothy - The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999
Stauter-Halsted, Keely - The Nation in the Village
Storozynski, Alex - The Peasant Prince: and the Age of Revolution
Szabados, Stephen. 2014 Memories of Dziadka: Rural Life in the Kingdom of Poland 1880-1912 and Immigration to America.
Thomas, William I. and Znaniecki, Florian - The Polish Peasant in Europe and America
Varvounis, Miltiades - Jan Sobieski: The King Who Saved Europe
Varvounis, Miltiades - Made in Poland: The Women and Men Who Changed the World
Wyman, Mark - Round Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe 1880-1930
Witold Kula, Nina Assorodobraj-Kula, Marcin Kula, Josephine Wtulich. Writing home: Immigrants in Brazil and the United States 1890-1891
Zamoyski, Adam - The Polish Way
Zamoyski, Adam - Poland: A History
digital:
https://archive.org/details/historyofpolandf00fletuoft - edition 1831
“A Guide to the History of Poland” (120 page pdf in various languages) http://pamiec.pl/pa/biblioteka-cyfrowa/publikacje/16251,Przewodnik-po-historii-Polski-9662016.html
Culture
Czerwiński, Tomasz. 2009. Wyposażenie domu wiejskiego w Polsce. Warszawa: Sport i Turystyka MUZA SA.
Hodorowicz-Knab, Sophie - Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore
Hodorowicz-Knab, Sophie - Polish Herbs, Flowers & Folk Medicine
Hodorowicz-Knab, Sophie - Polish Wedding Customs and Traditions
Wloszczewski, Stefan, PH.D - History of Polish American Culture
ELLIS ISLAND
Conway, Lorie - Forgotten Ellis Island
Brownstone, Franck and Brownstone - Island of Hope, Island of Tears
POLISH-AMERICAN HISTORY and MEMOIRS
Baker, T. Lindsay - The First Polish Americans: Silesian Settlements in Texas
Borden, Timothy - American Originals: Northwest Ohio’s Polish Community
Jablonski, Fred Francis - The Dynamics of an East Buffalo Ethnic Neighborhood
Kraft, Helen - The Chene Street Story
Sadek, Karolina - Karolina Remembers
Kruszka, Wacław - A History of the Poles in America to 1908 Part IV. Poles in the Central and Western States
Milostan, Harry - Parisville Poles
Renkiewicz, Frank - The Poles in America 1608-1972
Wylie, Jeanie - Poletown: Community Betrayed
LIST copied from sister group - Polish Culture Food and Traditions
Online resources
History of Galicia:
Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement in the Nineteenth Century
Where is Poland: The story of Poland under partition, seen through a foreigner's eyes