© Slovak Post, 2007 Slovak history in America is very long. In the territory of the present United States of America, Slovaks are sporadically recorded from the 17th century. Mass emigration to “America” started after 1880 as a result of unprecedented social and national oppression in the-then Hungary. By 1910, around three quarters of a million of Slovaks had emigrated to the USA (almost one third of the population). In the country's democratic conditions they very quickly achieved both civil and national emancipation and their brotherhood (fraternal) organisations quickly became concerned with the situation of Slovaks in their home country. In...