When Victimization of Poland was never in Doubt: Fostering Knowledge of and Sympathy for Poland in the Early American Republic: 1811-1849 as Reported in the Niles' Register

For 21st century Americans in generally, and Polish Americans in particular, a rare view of what was being reported about the state of affairs in Poland principally by European, and secondarily, by American journalists, exactly as the news of the day was being written verbatim in those times.

In this, the first quarter of the 21st century, Americans as well as others who are well-informed about the history of Poland’s painful epic struggles to exist as a free and independent nation, have bee...