This research guide provides information about immigration from the Slovak Republic to the United States, and about the activities of Slovak immigrants in the United States from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Information is contained in a chronology and a bibliography of printed works about the Slovak experience coming to the United States.

"The Slovaks in America" was part of the pilot phase of a larger project to create, in cooperation with partners in Europe and the United States, a Transatlantic Digital Library dealing with themes of common European-American interest and significance. This project was also linked to the Transatlantic Information Exchange System (TIES), which was launched in May 1998 under the auspices of the United States-European Union New Transatlantic Agenda. Other projects in this series dealt with immigration from other European countries and with the fiftieth anniversary of the Marshall Plan and other important anniversaries of transatlantic significance.

The chronology was prepared by Helen Fedor, Reference Specialist in the Library's European Division. Robert Garian of the European Division was technical director of the European Division's Transatlantic Digital Project. Partial funding for "The Slovaks in America" was provided by the United States Information Agency.