Bulgarian & Macedonian American
Note: For the purposes of this guide, materials relating to Bulgarian Americans and Macedonian Americans are described together below. This is not meant in any way to blur distinctions between Macedonians and Bulgarians. It is done simply in recognition of the fact that due to historical circumstances and migration patterns too involved to relate here, sources useful for the study of one group are often relevant for the other.
Monographs
The collection includes Nikolay Altankov's The Bulgarian-Americans (1979), the first book-length study devoted entirely to the Bulgarians in the United States. Also available is a collection of newspaper articles entitled Macedonians in North America: An Outline Published by the Coordinating Committee of the Youth Sections with the Macedonian Patriotic Organizations of the United States and Canada (1960). The book Bulgaria, A Bibliographic Guide by Marin V. Pundeff (1965), found in the reference section, covers topics pertaining to the motherland. Other useful accounts of Bulgarian and Macedonian immigration history are contained in some of the works referred to in the final paragraph below and in the IHRC's general collection.
An assortment of socialist pamphlets gives primary evidence of labor activity among Bulgarian Americans. Suiuznata Sots. Knizharnitsa i Pechatnitsa (Federated Socialist Bookstore and Printery, Granite City, IL) issued pamphlets with tracts by E. V. Debs and others (1917-1918). Pamphlets published by Industrialnitie Rabotnitsi na Svieta (Industrial Workers of the World, Chicago) between 1920 and 1924 include Shto e I.R.S.? (What is the I.W.W.?).
On the subject of the ethnic press, the IHRC has an undated catalog of books issued by the press of the newspaper Naroden Glas (National Herald). Published in Granite City from 1907 to 1950, Naroden Glas at its height was the most influential Bulgarian American newspaper.
A primary source for the study of the Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Mission (later a diocese) for the United States and Canada is the manual of bylaws of the St. Stefan Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Indianapolis, IN), printed in 1929 at the press of the Makedonska Tribuna (Macedonian Tribune) in the same city.
Literary publications in the collection feature works by the two best-known Bulgarian American writers. By Peter Demetroff Yankoff there is a fictionalized autobiographical account, Peter Menikoff: The Story of a Bulgarian Boy in the Great American Melting Pot (1928). By Stoyan Christowe there are both factual and fictionalized autobiographies, This Is My Country (1938), My American Pilgrimage (1947), and The Eagle and the Stork (1976), as well as a fictional treatment of Ali Pasha of Jannina, The Lion of Yanina (1941).
Researchers interested in Macedonian and/or Bulgarian Americans are encouraged to consult also the small collection of books (ca. eighty volumes) shelved and classified as "Yugoslav." Included here are works dealing with more than one of the South Slavic groups. Predominant among these are secondary studies (many of them key publications) such as Americans from Yugoslavia, by Gerald G. Govorchin; South Slavic Immigration in America, by George Prpic (1978); Yugoslav Migrations to America, by Branko Colakovic (1973); The Yugoslavs in America: 1880-1918, by L. Blaisdell; and several studies by Adam Eterovich and others on South Slavic people in particular states or regions.
Newspapers
Macedonia
Makedonska Tribuna (Macedonian Tribune), Indianapolis, IN. Weekly: 1963-date. Includes English.
Yugoslav
Jugoslavenski Glasnik (Yugoslav Herald), Chicago, IL/Calumet, MI/New York, NY. Weekly: 1938-1945. Serbian and/or Croatian.
Jugoslovenski Obzor (Yugoslav Observer), Milwaukee, WI. Semi-monthly: 1933-1945. Slovenian.
Serials
Balkania, St. Louis, MO. Quarterly: 1967-1973. English.
Bulgarian Studies Association Newsletter, Gary, IN. Quarterly: 1980. English.
Bulgarian Studies Group Newsletter, Gary, IN. Quarterly: 1978-1979. English.
Yugoslav
Balkan and Eastern European American Genealogical and Historical Society, San Francisco, CA. Frequency varies: 1964-1966. English.
The Florida State University Center for Yugoslav-American Studies Proceedings and Reports (previously titled The Florida State University Slavic Papers), Tallahassee, FL. Annual: 1972-1977. English.
The Florida State University Joint Yugoslav-American Advisory Council Proceedings and Reports, Tallahassee, FL. Annual: 1978-1979. English.
Jugoslav Review, New York. Monthly. (Microfilm: 1923). Serbian and/or Croatian, Slovenian.
Jugoslaven (The Yugoslav), Västerås, Sweden. Quarterly: 1979. Croatian and English.
Jugoslavia Kalendar (Yugoslavia Calendar), Chicago, IL. Annual: 1939. Slovenian and English.
Kolo, New York, NY. Monthly: 1924. Slovenian.
Medunarodni Problemi (International Problems), Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Quarterly: 1982. Serbian and/or Croatian.
Nas Kalendar (Our Calendar), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Annual: 1958. Slovenian.
Sokolski Vesnik (Sokol Herald), Milwaukee, WI. Quarterly: 1967-1975, 1980-1984. Serbian, Croatian, and Slovenian.
T & T (formerly Today and Tomorrow), Milford, NJ. Bi-monthly: 1945-1948, 1950. English.
The Tamburitzan, Pittsburgh, PA. Bi-monthly: 1959-1961, 1976. English.
That's Yugoslavia (supplement to Hrvatska Domovina), Hamburg, West Germany. Monthly: 1982. English.
United Committee of South-Slavic Americans Bulletin, New York, NY. Frequency varies: 1943-1946. English.
United Yugoslav Relief Fund of America News Bulletin (previously titled Yugoslav News Bulletin), New York, NY. Frequency varies: 1941-1945. English.
Yugoslav-American Academic Association of the Pacific Bulletin, Palo Alto, CA. Quarterly: 1977. English.
Yugoslav-American Society Newsletter, Minneapolis, MN. Bi-monthly: 1987-date. English.
Yugoslav Facts and Views, New York, NY. Monthly: 1975-1981. English.
Yugoslavia Ministarstvo Socijalne Politike Iseljenicki Odsek Iseljenicka Sluzba: Izvestaj Narodnoj Skupstini (Yugoslav Ministry of Social Policy Emigration Department Emigration Service: Report to National Assembly), Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Bi-annual: 1925-1927. Serbian and/or Croatian.
