Ph.D. - Purdue University
M.A. - Purdue University
M.Ed. - University of Maryland
B.A. - State University of New York-Albany
Professional Activities
James S. Pula
Selected Articles
“‘Eagles Over England’: The Kościuszko Squadron in the Battle of Britain,” Studia Historica Gedanensia, University of Gdańsk, Poland ( June 2011), 285-301.
“Postwar Immigration: 1950 to 1959,” Multicultural America, Volume IV, The Asian Americans (New York: Facts on File Publishing, 2011), 103-23
“New Immigrants: 1970 to 1979,” Multicultural America, Volume IV, The Asian Americans (New York: Facts on File Publishing, 2011), 141-166
“The Colonial Era: Beginnings to 1776,” Multicultural America, Volume 6, The European Americans (New York: Facts on File, 2011), 1-26
“The American Revolution: 1775 to 1783,” Multicultural America. Volume I, The Hispanic Americans (New York: Facts on File, 2010), 19-37
“The Early National Period and Expansion: 1783 to 1859,” Multicultural America, Volume I, The Hispanic Americans (New York: Facts on File, 2010), 39-58
“The Civil War to the Gilded Age: 1859 to 1900,” Multicultural America, Volume I, The Hispanic Americans (New York: Facts on File, 2010), 59-81.
“Przyjmijmy ich z otwartymi ramionami ... 1608-1919” (Let the Arms of Our Nation Be Opened ... 1608-1919), in Henryk Szlajfer, ed., My Naród: 90 lat stosunków dyplomatycznych między Polską a USA (Warsaw: Archiwum Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych, 2009), 6-21
“Polish-American Catholicism: A Case Study in Cultural Determinism,” U.S. Catholic Historian, Vol. 27, no. 3 (Summer 2009), 1-19
“Polish Workers and Strikes, 1900-1937,” in Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day and Immanuel Ness, eds., The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 2009.
“Polish Workers and Strikes, 1900-1937,” in Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day and Immanuel Ness, eds., The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2008).
“Jamestown’s 400th Anniversary,” Polish American Studies, LXV, No. 2 (Autumn 2008), 9-15.
“The Polish Presence in Jamestown,” Polish American Journal, September 2008.
“Tadeusz Kościuszko: a Case Study in Constructed Historical Symbolism” in The Polish Review, LIII, no. 2 (2008), 159-182.
“Fact vs. Fiction: What Do We Really Know About the Polish Presence in Early Jamestown,” The Polish Review, LIII, no. 4 (2009), 477-493.
“The Fifth German Rifles at Gettysburg,” Gettysburg Magazine, No. 37 (July 2007).
“Forgotten Ancestors: Nineteenth Century Antecedents of Modern Polonia,” Polish American Studies, LXIV, No. 1 (Spring 2007), 47-62.
“Fighting for Time: Carl Schurz on the First Day at Gettysburg,” Gettysburg Magazine, No. 35 (July 2006), 26-35.
“The Second Great Awakening: Abolitionism in Oneida County,” Mohawk Valley History, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2006), 12-47.
“Marketing Graduate Programs for Success,” co-authored with Kate Cominsky, NAGAP journal (Spring 2006), National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals.
“‘Only Honorable Marks’: The 117th New York at Fort Fisher,” Mohawk Valley History, Volume 2, 2004.
“‘A Branch Cut Off From Its Trunk’—The Affects of Immigration Restriction on American Polonia,” Polish American Studies, Vol. LXI (Spring 2004).
“The Great Cemetery War: The Bishop of Syracuse vs. the Societies of St. Stanislaus and St. Casimir,” Mohawk Valley History, Volume 1, 2004.
“The Writing on the Walls: Badger Graffiti in Civil War Virginia,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 2003.
“Polonia w Stanach Zjednoczonnych do 1914 roku,” Diaspora polska (Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2001).
“Not As A Gift of Charity”: Ernestine Potowska Rose and the Married Woman’s Property Laws,” Polish American Studies, Vol. LVIII, No. 2 (Autumn 2001).
“Engineering American Independence: The Role of Tadeusz Kościuszko in the Northern Campaign,” Occasional Papers, Polish Studies Program, Central Connecticut State University, 2000.
“Bullets Came as Thick as Hail: The 26th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry at Gettysburg,” Gettysburg Magazine, Vol. 23 (July 2000).
“Battle in the Swamp: Cogswell’s Federal Brigade at Averasboro,” Civil War Regiments, 1998.
“Image, Status and Integration in American Society: The Polish Experience,” Journal of American Ethnic History, Fall 1996.
“The Anatomy of Immigrant Strikes,” The Polish Review, XLI, No. 3 (Fall 1996).
“The Progressives, the Immigrant, and the Workplace: Defining Public Perceptions, 1900-1914,” Polish American Studies, LII, No. 2 (Autumn 1995), 57-69.
“Consortial Approaches to Educational Programming,” with Dr. Larry Maher, Conference Proceedings, National Conference on the Adult Learner, 1994.
“Cultural Determinism in the Founding of the Polish National Catholic Church,” PNCC Studies, Vol. 15, 1994.
“Demographic Factors in the Formation of Sacred Heart of Jesus Polish National Catholic Parish in New York Mills, New York,” PNCC Studies, Vol. 14, 1993.
“Everyone Calls Us Racists,” Gwiazda Polarna, 1993.
“American Perceptions of Immigrant Education,” American Studies, Vol. XIII, 1993.
“Black-Polish Tensions: The Reaction of Blacks and Poles to the Civil Rights Movement,” Fiedorczyk Lecture, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, April, 1992.
“A Review of Research on Polish America, 1968-1988,” Ethnic Forum, Vol. 9, 1989.
“A Review of Research on the Polish National Catholic Church, 1978-1988, With Suggestions for Future Studies,” PNCC Studies, Vol. 9 (1988).
“Creating Integrated, Student-Centered Curricula,” proceedings of the 1988 annual meeting of Region II, National University Continuing Education Association, pp. 20-23.
“Wacław Kruszka: A Polonia Historian in Perspective,” Polish American Studies, XLIV, No. 2 (Autumn 1987).
“Developing an Interdisciplinary Graduate Degree for Adults,” Proceedings from the Fifth Annual Conference on Non-Traditional and Interdisciplinary Programs (Fairfax, VA: George Mason University, 1987).
“Commentary on ‘Poland, Pulaski and Warsaw,’” Working Papers, a publication of The Seminar on New York State History (Albany: The New York State Education Department, 1985).
“Gaining Access to Corporate Education Programs,” Non-Traditional and Interdisciplinary Programs, George Mason University, 1984.
“A Consortial Approach to Working with Business and Industry,” Continuum, January, 1983.
“Arthur Grabowskii: Soldier, Educator, Enigma,” Polish American Studies, XXXIX, No. 1, 1982.
“The Assimilated Polish Americans,” American Polonia: The Cultural Issues (Detroit: American Council of Polish Cultural Clubs, 1981.
“United States Immigration Policy and the Dillingham Commission,” Polish American Studies, XXXVII, No. 1, 1980.
“The American Will of Thaddeus Kościuszko,” Polish American Studies, XXXIV, No. 2, 1977.
“Bicentennial Sketches,” a collection of essays on topics dealing with the Revolutionary War published by the University of Maryland, 1976. I contributed six.
“The Sigel Regiment,” German-American Studies, VIII, 1974.
“Culture and Human Values” and “The Media and American Society,” two interdisciplinary teaching modules published by the Institute in Service to Education, 1974.
“The Real Riddle of Chancellorsville,” Poland, October, 1972.
“Krzyżanowski’s Civil War Brigade,” Polish American Studies, XXIX, No. 2, 1972.
“‘Eagles Over England’: The Kościuszko Squadron in the Battle of Britain,” Studia Historica Gedanensia, University of Gdańsk, Poland, June 2011 (pp. 285-301
Encyclopedia Entries
Various entries in the following publications:
Encyclopedia of the Gettysburg Campaign (forthcoming)
Encyclopedia of American Catholic Women (forthcoming)
Encyclopedia of New York State History.
Encyclopedia of Violence in America , Ronald Gottesman, ed. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999), 555-558.
Encyclopedia of Irish American History
Encyclopedia of American Catholicism
Encyclopedia of New York City
Dictionary of American Immigration
Dictionary of American Military Biography
Audio/Video Works
Chair, “Celebrating Our Journeys,” a five-year ethnic heritage exhibit at the Oneida County Historical Society.
Consultant for forthcoming documentary on Thaddeus Kościuszko in the American Revolution.
“Polish Americans and the Civil Rights Movement,” Voice of America , May, 1994.
“The Poles in New York ,” a videotape presentation prepared under a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities, 1985.
“Rochester Remembers,” a series of historical minutes prepared for and broadcast over WXXI-TV during the Rochester Sesquicentennial, 1984.