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Donald Edward Pienkos (born 1944) is a Polish-American historian at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...
specializing in the history of
Polish-American Polish Americans ( pl, Polonia amerykańska) are Americans who either have total or partial Polish ancestry, or are citizens of the Republic of Poland. There are an estimated 9.15 million self-identified Polish Americans, representing about 2.83% ...
community. He received the Officer’s Cross of Merit from the President of Poland, November 2010. His works on Milwaukee's Polonia have been described as "most useful".


Works

*''For your freedom through ours: Polish American efforts on Poland's behalf, 1863-1991'', 1991


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Homepage at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1944 births University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty American people of Polish descent 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers Historians of Poland Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni DePaul University alumni Historians of the United States Living people American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub