A talk by David Chroust
Associate Professor, Texas A&M University,
Cushing Memorial Library and Archives

“The zenith for America's Czech community-over half a million migrants and their children-was a century ago. The living city neighborhoods and country enclaves are long gone. What remains are buildings and a continent of texts.  Common genres were newspapers, anniversary pamphlets and advertisements. Migration scholars have already learned much about the Europeans who came and remade America a century ago. How much can they really learn from the small Czech migration in the past? How much of Czech America can become part of a new past and new national self-understandings in the Czech Republic?