Jadwiga, also known as Hedwig, was the first female monarch of the Kingdom of Poland, reigning from 16 October 1384 until her death. She was the youngest daughter of Louis the Great, King of Hungary and Poland, and his wife Elizabeth of Bosnia. Jadwiga was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou, but she had more close forebears among the Polish Piasts than among the Angevins. In 1997 she was canonized by the Catholic Church.
David Herbert Donald was an American historian, best known for his 1995 biography of Abraham Lincoln. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for earlier works; he published more than 30 books on United States political and literary figures and the history of the American South.
Michael Alfred Peszke was a Polish-American psychiatrist and historian of the Polish Armed Forces in World War II.
Oskar Halecki was a Polish historian, social and Catholic activist.
The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) is a Polish-American scholarly institution headquartered in Manhattan, at 208 East 30th Street.
Elizabeth of Bosnia was queen consort and later regent of Hungary and Croatia, as well as queen consort of Poland.
Caesar E. Farah was a professor of history at the University of Minnesota.
Leonard W. Labaree was a distinguished documentary editor, a professor of history at Yale University for more than forty years, an historian of Colonial America, and the founding editor of the multivolume publication of the papers of Benjamin Franklin.
The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) is a scholarly society dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about the former Soviet Union and Eastern and Central Europe. The ASEEES supports teaching, research, and publication relating to the peoples and territories within this area.
David Edward Kyvig was an American historian, and Distinguished Research Professor at Northern Illinois University.
The Polish American Historical Association (PAHA), founded in 1942, is a scholarly association dedicated to the study of Polish American history and culture. Originally a section of the larger Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, PAHA soon became an independent organization. On September 11, 1942, historian Oskar Halecki proposed an autonomous historical institution and chose Miecislaus Haiman of the Polish Museum of America in Chicago as its founding president. Since 1944, PAHA publishes Polish American Studies, an interdisciplinary journal focused primarily in social science and the humanities relating to American Polonia. It is edited by James S. Pula, who also edited PAHA's recent The Polish American Encyclopedia.
Wiley Lee Housewright, EdD was an American music educator and longtime dean of music at Florida State University.
Eugene Francis Vincent Kusielewicz was an American historian, author, educator, and a leading spokesperson on Polish and Polish-American affairs in the United States.
Borisz de Balla, also known as Borisz Balla de Iregh, was a Hungarian journalist, historian, diplomat, novelist, and educator who taught in the United States after World War II.
James Edward Bunce was an American historian, author, and educator who specialized in British and American colonial history.
Edward Paul Lilly was an American historian, author, educator, and government worker who specialized in the history of political and psychological warfare in the twentieth century.
Beth Holmgren is an American literary critic and a cultural historian in Polish and Russian studies. She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University. Recognised for her scholarship in Russian women's studies and Polish cultural history, she is as of July 2018 working on a multicultural history of fin-de-siecle Warsaw. Before coming to Duke, she taught at the University of California-San Diego (1987-1993) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1993-2007). She earned her B.A at Grinnell College, and two master's degrees and and her doctoral doctorate at Harvard University.
Gershon David Hundert is a noted Canadian historian of Early Modern Polish Jewry and Leanor Segal Professor at McGill University.
Frederick Carl Luebke is an American historian who served as Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He joined the faculty of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1968, was promoted to full professor there in 1972, and was named the Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor of History there in 1987. He retired in 1994. As a professor, his scholarship was in the field of American history, with a particular focus on the history of the Great Plains and Nebraska, among other topics.
Richard Peter Harmond is an American historian, author, and educator, who specializes in the history of the American Gilded Age, as well as the history of technology and the environment.
