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Tadeusz Kościuszko, Part II:​ Life and Legend

3/9/2024

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 Portrait of Tadeusz reclining on a seat in front of a window with his hand to his head
How much is it impossible to know about an icon? This episode investigates Tadeusz Kościuszko’s place in historical memory. From the early 19th century onwards, myths coalesced around him and his role in the Polish struggle for independence. Paradoxically, his contemporary fame can make it harder for historians to find facts. As a disabled war veteran who fought for racial and religious equality, moreover, Kościuszko is a figure more complex than the heroic narratives that have often formed around him.

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Further Reading

Władysław Ludwik Anczyc, Kościuszko pod Racławicami, 1881
 
Nicolas Boston, “How the defacement of two statues could lead to Poland’s reckoning with its Black history,” New East Digital Archive.
 
Michał Burczak, “The Creation of an Enduring Legend of the National Hero: A Comparison of Tadeusz Kościuszko and George Washington,” The Polish Review 59, no. 3 (2014): 25–39. 
 
Lauren Daen, “Revolutionary War Invalid Pensions and the Bureaucratic Language of Disability in the Early Republic.” Early American Literature 52, no. 1 (2017): 141–67. 
 
Heinrich Elsner, Befreiungskampf der nordamerikanischen Staaten (1835)
 
Halina Filipowicz, “School for Patriots? The Foundational Dramas of the American and Polish Revolutions Revisited,” Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne Des Slavistes 52, no. 1/2 (2010): 19–45. 
 
Halina Filipowicz, Taking Liberties: Gender, Transgressive Patriotism, and Polish Drama, 1786–1989 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2014)
 
Mary Monica Gardner, Kościuszko: A Biography (1920)
 
David A. Gerber, Disabled Veterans in History. 
 
Thomas S. Gladsky, Princes, Peasants, and Other Polish Selves: Ethnicity in American Literature (1992)
 
Antoni Gronowicz, trans. Samuel Sorgenstein, Gallant General: Tadeusz Kościuszko (New York: Scribner & Sons, 1947)
 
John Z. Guzlowski, “Antoni Gronowicz,” The Polish Review 58, no. 4 (2013): 81–89. 
 
Marek Haltof, “Polish Silent Cinema (1896–1929).” In Polish Cinema: A History, 9–40. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. 
 
Julius Ursyn Niemcewicz, Pamiętniki Czasów Moich (Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1868)
 
Alex Storozynski, dir. “Kościuszko: Człowiek, który wyprzedził swoje czasy,” aired on TVP Historia, 2020. 
 
David M. Turner, Disability in Eighteenth-Century England: Imagining Physical Impairment. London: Routledge, 2012
 
https://www.warszawa1939.pl/obiekt/dobra-47 [Atelier i laboratorium Falanga]

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