Donald E. Pienkos
{{Short description|Polish-American historian}}
Donald Edward Pienkos (born 1944) is a Polish-American historian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee specializing in the history of Polish-American community.
He received the Officer’s Cross of Merit from the President of Poland, November 2010.{{Cite web|url=https://uwm.edu/political-science/people/pienkos-donald/|title=Donald Pienkos | Political Science}}
His works on Milwaukee's Polonia have been described as "most useful".{{cite book|author=David L. Anderson|title=The Human Tradition in America Since 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WrP8xRB7DxYC&pg=PA127|year=2003|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8420-2943-8|pages=127–}}
Works
- {{Cite book |last=Pienkos |first=Donald E. |title=Communist Policy in Polish Agriculture: 1944-1964 |date=1965 |publisher=University of Wisconsin--Madison |language=en}}
- {{Cite book |last=Pienkos |first=Donald E. |title=PNA: A Centennial History of the Polish National Alliance of the United States of North America |date=1984 |publisher=East European Monographs |isbn=978-0-88033-060-2 |language=en}}
- {{Cite book |last=Pienkos |first=Donald E. |title=One Hundred Years Young: A History of the Polish Falcons of America, 1887-1987 |date=1987 |publisher=East European Monographs |isbn=978-0-88033-128-9 |language=en}}
- {{Cite book |last=Pienkos |first=Donald E. |title=For Your Freedom Through Ours: Polish American Efforts on Poland's Behalf, 1863-1991 |date=1991 |publisher=East European Monographs |isbn=978-0-88033-208-8 |language=en}}
- {{Cite book |last=Pienkos |first=Donald E. |title=Polish Americans and Poland: A Review of the Record |date=1993 |publisher=Polish Studies Program, Central Connecticut State University |language=en}}
- {{Cite book |last=Pienkos |first=Angela T. |title="In the Ideals of Women is the Strength of a Nation": A History of the Polish Women's Alliance of America |last2=Pienkos |first2=Donald E. |date=2003 |publisher=East European Monographs |isbn=978-0-88033-530-0 |language=en}}
- {{Cite book |last=Pienkos |first=Donald E. |title=Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: The Story of the Polish National Alliance |date=2008 |publisher=Alliance Printers and Publishers |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [https://uwm.edu/political-science/people/pienkos-donald/ Homepage at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee]
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Category:University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty
Category:American people of Polish descent
Category:20th-century American historians
Category:20th-century American male writers
Category:Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Category:DePaul University alumni
Category:Historians of the United States
Category:American male non-fiction writers
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