Chicago, with its industrial growth and demand for labor, was a magnet for Polish immigrants looking to have a better, more economically prosperous life. By the 1900s, the number of immigrants and ...

In the early 1900s, the city boasted five Polish-language newspapers ... Water-gun fights broke out between the floats and onlookers. New immigrants living on Buffalo’s East Side, many of ...

(Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun) The Polish immigrants who settled in Brandon in the early 1900s played a significant role in shaping the city’s history, especially the area between the train tracks ...

Vance Whitmore says his grandfather brought with him a knowledge of Southern cooking to a town filled with Eastern European immigrants ... the 1900s. While the historical record doesn’t show who ...

I wrote these poems as the queer daughter of formerly undocumented Polish immigrants, from a country whose borders have been drawn and redrawn over centuries. Having birthright citizenship saved ...

Immigrants make a city's food scene, or so history tells us. Polish and Eastern European Jewish ... the Southwest United States during the early 1900s. Even in landlocked Indianapolis, historical ...

Paczki arrived in the U.S. around the 19th century with Polish Catholic immigrants. The Polish Catholics brought the tradition of using up and clearing pantries of fats such as butter and lard and ...

Known as the “Michigan Assassin,” Ketchel was a middleweight boxing champion in the early 1900s. His career was ... This damage prompted members of the Polish Heritage Society of Grand Rapids ...