Skenderbeg in The United States

Abstract

There are, in my view, three aspects to the history of Skenderbeg in the United States that need to be considered in order to put this topic into its proper perspective. These are, first, the propagation of the deeds and exploits of Albania’s national hero into Europe, and more specifically into England. For it will be primarily from the English mother country that the literature and history pertaining to Skenderbeg will be transmitted to its American colonies and subsequently to the newly independent United States of America. In this connection the noted American intellectual historian Merle Curti has observed: The ideas and agencies of intellectual life bequeathed by the colonial era owed far more to Great Britain than to any other land, for Englishspeaking peoples made up the dominant element in colonial society.