Kraków was the official capital of Poland Krakow from 1038 until 1596. The Historic Centre of Kraków was declared UNESCO ...

A mom-and-pop Polish eatery that’s garnered much fanfare over 17 years bid its final do widzenia to customers earlier this ...

Genik Lojka has struck a masterpiece. Belarusian sculptor and architect Genik Loika made a sculpture of Grand Duke Mindovg right out of a street subgrove on a Brooklyn, New York street. It turned out ...

The Polish foreign ministry has presented its annual awards for the best books on Polish history and diplomacy.Photo: Marcin Maniewski/MSZ First prize in the foreign-language publications category ...

Invitation to Kosciuszko Imieniny at PMA. Dear Members and Friends of the Kosciuszko Foundation, On the initiative of Alex Storozynski, the Kosciuszko Foundation President, 2008-2014, all of the KF ...

On the bronze statue in Lafayette Square, opposite the White House in Washington, is the inscription : “And Freedom Shrieked As Kosciuszko Fell.” Tadeusz Kosciuszko was a Polish patriot who fought ...

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A gold ring dating back hundreds of years was discovered in the rubble of a monument in Poland, museum officials said. Photo from the Wawel Royal Castle Archaeologists in Poland recently uncovered a ...

Polish American Folk Dance company performs in the Grand Ballroom of the Plaza during the Kosciuszko Foundation’s Annual Ball. The Foundation owns the nearby Van Alen mansion at 15 East 65th Street, ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Thousands lined the streets to mark the 87th annual Pulaski Day Parade when a sea of red and white descended upon Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue for the Pulaski Day Parade. Among those ...

Polonaise (music by Frédéric Chopin & Bronislaw Kaper; lyrics by John Latouche; book by Gottfried Reinhardt & Anthony Veiller; produced by W. Horace Schmidlapp in association with Harry Bloomfield) is ...

What does it feel like to watch a republic die? And what does it take to revive one? Whether the American republic survives could be decided in the next few months. Decades or centuries hence, the ...