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- UPCOMING: Exploring Cultural Identity via Family Photos - APR. 26, 2025
- Who I Am/Who We Are? - APR. 5, 2025
- Footprints of Polonia - FEB. 15, 2025
- Edziu: The Extraordinary Ordinary Ed Thiede - 27 APR., 2024
- Polish American Stories and Storytelling - NOV 4, 2023
- A Conversation with Kent Washington - MAR 12, 2022
- Webinar on Borderlands Biography - DEC. 11, 2021
- America, Exiles and Ways to Rally Global Support for the Case of the Captive Nations - OCT. 23, 2021
- A Builder of Polish American Identity: How Victor Cordella of Krakow Shaped Church Architecture in Minnesota - APR. 17, 2021
- Poles in Seattle 1890-2020 : Continuity And Change - MAR 13, 2021
- Community Archives as a Way to Manifest Identity and Preserve One’s Heritage - FEB. 13, 2021
- Polish American Women and Their Foodways in Early 20th Century Chicago - JAN. 16, 2021
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RECENT ISSUES - JOURNAL CONTENT
PAS Issues, 2020s
Vol. 80, Autumn 2023
Editorial Note
Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann
Articles
Transit Experiences
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The Journeys of Polish and Other Migrants from Eastern Europe to North America before 1914
Tobias Brinkmann
Between a Polish Shiksa and a Jewish Woman: Ambiguous Identities in Eva Mekler's Novels
Grażyna J. Kozaczka
Jewish Threads in a Polish Life Story
Mary Patrice Erdmans
Forum: Footprints of Polonia: Polish Historical Sites Across North America
Seeing
Footprints of Polonia
Jerome Krase
Footprints of Polonia
and Public History
Joanna Wojdon
Footprints of Polonia
: Ready for the Road Trips
Theodore L. Zawistowski
Polish Americans and the Writing of Public History
Gavin Moulton
Reviews
Polacy w Chicago: Doświadczenie imigranta. integracja, izolacja, asymilacja
Michał J. Wilczewski
Emigracja Kaszubska. Zjawisko. Ludzie. Ośrodki
Kinga Alina Langowska
From Cracow to Polish Town: The History of a Polish Enclave in the Weir Creek Ministerial District, New Kent County, Virginia
John M. Grondelski
Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree: My Basketball Odyssey
Kentomania: A Black Basketball Virtuoso in Communist Poland
Neal Pease
We Don't Become Refugees by Choice: Mia Truskier, Survival, and Activism from Occupied Poland to California, 1920–2014
Beata Halicka