Published 2017-03-01
“…The article analyzes origins of US-Ukrainian relation through describing first sporadic contacts of Ukrainians and Poles from Ukraine with America in the 17th and 18th cent., their participating in early pioneer settlements, Naval contacts (e.g. a story of American hero as a
commander of Cossack Fleet ),naming some symbolic memorial places and ( like the Ukraine’s Embassy building and its role in the
history of
Washington D.C.), describing participation of some Ukrainians in the American Revolution (the War for Independence) and Civil War, Taras Shevchenko’s sympathy to American ideals, characterizing economic motivation and political causes of the main stages of Ukrainian mass emigration from Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire to North America in the 19th and 20th centuries. …”
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