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Ludlow Greek Americans in the Colorado Coal War
On September 15, 1913, the United Mine Workers union voted to strike in southern Colorado to protest dangerous working conditions and poor pay. The strike eventually blew up into one of the most violent times…
Byzantium: Hidden In Plain Sight
Today, when I am writing this, is May 29. For many Greeks and other successors of Byzantium, the date’s significance is self-evident. The seismic event, the final fall of Constantinople to the Turks, on this day…
Bulkes: The “Greek Republic” That “Never Existed”
5/23/2016 — Today, it’s raining here in Chicago, and cold in mid-May. Back in January of 2013, it was just such a cold, rainy day… but elsewhere. At the time, my family still lived in…
Homeland: The Greeks Of Utah
After visiting Greek communities in so many parts of the world, it only makes sense for me to “come home” to my own community. The Greek Community of Utah is both typical of Greek communities…
From Tatavla to Kurtulus
The neighbourhood of Tatavla, today known as Kurtuluş, was once one of the wealthiest and most populous Greek Orthodox parishes of Istanbul. At the top of the hill, at the beginning of the “straight road”…
Coffee talk in Belogiannis
Alexander Billinis seeks out the history behind the Greek settlement of Beloiannisz in Hungary Five minutes off a spanking new autobahn, funded, like those in Greece, by the European Union, I arrive in Beloiannisz, a…
Greek Naval History: 1900 the Book – The First Naval Feat
This story brings to light the crossing in 1900 of the Atlantic Ocean by a generation of men of the Hellenic Navy, an attempt which from the outset had seemed doomed to fail. Even though…
Thermopylae and the “Other” Spartans
We all know the most famous words of defiance uttered by King Leonidas I of Sparta, when Xerxes I of Persia demanded that the Spartans guarding the Pass at Thermopylae lay down their arms and…
The Greeks Of Trieste
At the top of the Adriatic Sea, literally hemmed in by the crags of the Alps, which rise, at a clutch-burning grade from its port, lies the city of Trieste, in, but somehow not of,…
This Moment in Philadelphia Greek American History: Evzones and Hooters
March 1996, Philadelphia, PA – The Federation of Hellenic American Societies of Philadelphia was sponsoring the annual Greek Independence Day Parade in Center City Philadelphia, and marching in the parade was the members of the…
Book Review: “The Great Fire”, By Lou Ureneck
Smyrna’s (Izmir’s) destruction by fire and sword during the horrible month of September 1922, in the wake of the retreating Greek Army has been the subject of many a book. While many are the heroes…
Lecture About The Burning Smyrna In Philadelphia Today
Lou Ureneck will speak about the burning of Smyrna and the American rescue of Greek refugees today at 7:30 p.m. at the Free Library in Philadelphia. In September 1922, the richest city of the Mediterranean was…
