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- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
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Џон Рид

28 дана који нису потресли свет

Како је чувени амерички репортер путовао нашим ратиштем у лето 1915. године, шта је видео и забележио и због чега су ти текстови нашег читаоца чекали шездесет година...

У августовском броју њујоршког месечника „Метрополитен” лета 1915. године на ударним странама, 3–9, али и 53–57, појавио се први текст младог али већ славног репортера Џона Рида илустрован цртежима Канађанина Бордмана Робинсона. После наслова „Србија између битака” потекле су речи:

„Истрљали смо се од главе до пете камфоровим уљем, намазали косу петролеумом, напунили џепове куглицама против мољаца и попрскали пртљаг нафталином, укрцали смо се у воз тако натопљен формалином да су нас очи и плућа пекли као од негашеног креча. Американци из филијале ’Стандард ојла’ у Солуну дошетали су да се с нама последњи пут опросте.

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Serbian Americans: History—Culture—Press

by Krinka Vidaković-Petrov, translated from Serbian by Milina Jovanović

Learned, lucid, and deeply perceptive, SERBIAN AMERICANS is an immensely rewarding and readable book, which will give historians invaluable new insights, and general readers exciting new ways to approach the history​ of Serbian printed media. Serbian immigration to the U.S. started dates from the first few decades of 19th c. The first papers were published in San Francisco starting in 1893. During the years of the most intense politicization of the Serbian American community, the Serbian printed media developed quickly with a growing number of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly publications. Newspapers were published in Serbian print shops, while the development of printing presses was a precondition for the growth of publishing in general. Among them were various kinds of books: classical Serbian literature, folksong collections, political pamphlets, works of the earliest Serbian American writers in America (poetry, prose and plays), first translations from English to Serbian, books about Serb immigrants, dictionaries, textbooks, primers, etc.

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