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USMA Kosciuszko Monument at Age 195



To learn more about the life of Tadeusz Kosciuszko (1746-1817) and the Kosciuszko Mound (Kopiec Kosciuszki) in Cracow, Poland, please consult the following biographical and other related works:

In English as ir pertains to Tadeusz Kosciuszko

  • David J. Abodaher, Warrior on Two Continents: Thaddeus Kosciuszko, copyright 1968 by David J. Abodaher, published by Julian Messner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1 West 39 Street, New York, NY 10018
  • Monica M. Gardner, Kosciuszko, a Biography, copyright 1942, revised second edition, edited by Mary Corbridge, published by George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., London
  • Miecislaus Haiman, Kosciuszko in the American Revolution, published in 1972 by the Gregg Press, Boston, MA. First published in 1943 by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America
  • Francis Casimir Kajencki, Thaddeus Kosciuszko: Military Engineer of the American Revolution, copyright 1998 by Francis Casimir Kajencki; published by the Southwest Polonia Press, 3308 Nairn Street, El Paso, TX 79925
  • Gary B. Nash and Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Friends of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull, copyright 2008, published by Basic Books, 387 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016-8810
  • Dave Richard Palmer, The River and the Rock: The History of Fortress West Point, 1775-1783, Chapter 11 ("An Engineer from Poland"), second edition copyright 1991 by the Association of Graduates, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 and Hippocrene Books, Inc., 171 Madison Avenue, New York NY 10016
  • James S. Pula, Thaddeus Kosciuszko: The Purest Son of Liberty, copyright 1999 by James S. Pula; published by Hippocrene Books, Inc., 171 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016
  • Mieczyslaw Rokosz, Kosciuszko Mound in Cracow - A Monument of History: Maintenance, Management, Promotion, copyright 2019 by Promotion of Cultural Heritage 7(2019), pp. 149-165, 10.35784, odk.9, Cracow, Poland 
  • Alex Storozynski, The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Era of Revolution, copyright 2009 by Alex Storozynski; published by St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010
  • Andrzej Walicki, The Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Nationhood: Polish Political Thought from Noble Republicanism to Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Chapter 6 ("The Legacy of the Enlightenment and Some New Dilemmas in the Political Thought of Tadeusz  Kosciuszko"), copyright 1989 by the University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN 46556

 In Polish as it pertains ro Tadursz Kosciuszko

  • Bartlomiej Szyndler, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 1746-1817, copyright 1991 by Wydawnictwo Bellona, Warszawa, Polska 
  • Mieczyslaw Rokosz (ed.), Kosciuszce w Holdzie, copyright 1994 by the Towarzystwo Milosnikow Historii i Zabytkow Krakowa, and published in 1994 by Wydawnictwo i Drukarnia Secesja, Krakow, Polska  
  • Bartlomiej Szyndler, Powstanie Kosciuszkowskie, 1794, copyright 1994 by Wydawnictwo Ancher, Warszawa, Polska
  • Mieczyslaw Rokosz, Na Szancach Pamieci, copyright 2003 by Ksiegarnia Akademicka, Krakow, Polska, unnumbered chapter ("Kosciuszko"), pp. 189-203
  • Piotr Hapanowicz, Krakowskim Szlakiem Tadeusza Kosciuszki, copyright 2010 by the Komitet Kopca Kosciuszki, Krakow, Polska  eph Bajdek

In a Review Article  

  • Anthony J. Bajdek, Being a Consideration of Ingredients Thought to be Necessary for Producing a Memorable Work, copyright 2012 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois for the Polish American Historical Association, Polish American Studies, Vol. LXIX, No. 2 (Autumn 2012), pp. 97-107. He had been invited to review Alex Stororzynski's, The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Era of Revolution

In a Scholarly Article

  • Anthony J. Bajdek, The Patron Saint of West Point: Tadeusz Kosciuszko and His Academy Disciples, copyright 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois for the Polish American Historical Association, Polish American Studies, Vol. LXXVI, No. 2, (Autumn 2019), pp. 47-64 

In an Entire Issue of The Polish Review

  • Volume 59, No. 3, 2014: James S. Pula, "Introduction: Issue on Tadeusz Kosciuszko," pp. 3-4; James S. Pula, "Kosciuszko's Influence as an American Military Leader," pp. 5-23; Michal Burczak, "The Creation of an Enduring Legend of the National Hero: A Comparison of Tadeusz Kosciuszko and George Washington," pp. 25-39; Graham Russell Gao Hodges, "Kosciuszko and African-American History," pp. 41-56; Anna M. Rosner, "Jewish Participation in the Kosciuszko Uprising," pp. 57-71; Jaroslaw Czubaty, "A Republican in a Changing World: The Political Position and Attitudes of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 1798-1817," pp. 73-80; Joanna Wojdon and Jakub Tyszkiewicz, "The Image of Tadeusz Kosciuszko in Postwar Polish Education," pp. 81-94; and James S. Pula, "'Fellow Cadets' -- Charles Petigru's Dedication of the Kosciuszko Column at West Point," 95-10 

In an Entire Book on American Press Coverage of Events in Poland from 1811 to 1849  

  • Anthony Joseph Bajdek, WHEN VICTIMIZATION OF POLAND WAS NEVER IN DOUBT: Fostering Knowledge of and Sympathy for Poland in the Early American Repuclic: 1811-1849, as Reported in the Niles' Register; copyright 2021 by Winged Hussar Publishing, LLC, Point Pleasant, NJ. Of the 302 news articles comprising this opus, numbered News Articles 19, 35. 36, 38, 39, 49, 56, 72, 103, 128, 135, 170, 175, 189, 205, 221 and 222, written largely, but not exclusively, by British, French, German and Polish journalists in Europe, referenced Tadeusz Kosciuszko ranging in varying levels of coverage and intensity.

In a book written and published in Poland commemorating the bicentennial of the creation and purpose for the Kosciuszko Mound Committee, 1820 -2020, of which Anthony Joseph Bajdek had been inducted as its fitst foreign Honorary Member in 2019. Viewed from another prspective, the fact of his His induction made him the only foreigner to be inducted into the Kosciuszko Mound Committee's first two centuries of its esistance.   

  • Mieczyslaw Rokosz and Agata Barzycki-Pazdzior, editors, OPIEKUNOWIE KOPCA KOSCIUSZKI W KRAKOWIE, 1820-2020, Wydanie 1, copywight 2023; Anthony Joseph Bajdek's biography appers on pages 78 and 79 of the 275 page opus. . 

 

 

 

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