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 Poles, Polish ancestry, or are citizens of the Republic of Poland. There are an estimated 9.15 million self-identified Polish Americans, representing abou ...
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
References
External links
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
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