Historian
Pogonowski has published an illustrated history of Poland (2000), historical atlases of Poland, and a Polish heraldry (2002) which was reviewed in The Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 54, no. 1 (September 2010), by Professor Tny H. Lin of the University of California, Berkeley, who concluded that "this book makes a strong case for anyone that has doubts about Poland's significance in Europe."
Pogonowski's historical work has been praised by M.K. Dziewanowski, whose review of Jews in Poland calls the book a "pioneering attempt 'encompass' Jews within the Polish discourse, a rarity in American scholarship and in the discourse about Jews." Critics of his historianship have described him as a politically motivated amateur, a conspiratologist, and a leading and disturbing representative of ethnonationalist historiography.
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