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Slovak Settlers
SLOVAKS IN THE NEW WORLD
Welcome to the course (13:13)
Introduction (24:44)
It is time to reconnect (1:39)
I. EUROPE ON THE MOVE
Industrial revolution, cheap labor and great daring (5:32)
II. MIGRATING SLOVAKS
Three waves of migration (27:46)
Dreams, poverty & alcoholism (15:43)
A step too far?: Magyarization & unfreedom (8:43)
Birds of passage
Vignette / Slovak tinkers in America
Podcast /Women and migration
III. THE JOURNEY
Human beings and cattle passports
Crossing the ocean (13:35)
IV. LIFE IN THE NEW WORLD
In the coal mines of Pennsylvania (12:22)
Podcast /Sending money home
A new beginning
Slovak success in the New World (144:21)
Vignette / Are you Slovak? Are you Rusyn? (7:35)
Story/ How a Hungarian count brought Slovaks to Canada
Vignette / Slovaks in Argentina
V. BUILDING A SLOVAK WORLD IN AMERICA
Slovak communities in America
Let’s get organized! Fraternal societies and other civic organizations
Spiritual Life and the Role of Slovak Churches (2:52)
Podcast /Slovak Newspapers & National Awareness
Vignette / Would Czechoslovakia exist without Slovak Americans? (7:31)
Extra / Declaration of Czech and Slovak immigrants to the American people and President Wilson
THEMATIC WEBINAR
A journey to the New World with Dr Martin Javor (139:55)
YOUR ROOTS, YOUR LEGACY
Before we end (5:19)
A little sweet bonus
Human beings and cattle passports
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