Abstract
Serbian Sokol Societies were based on the idea of a new form of physical exercise originated in the Czech lands in the second half of the 19th century. After first initiatives, this idea soon spread to all Slavic as also countries where Slavic nations lived. That is how since 1907 this way of physical exercise appeared among Serbs who lived in America (USA). The Sokol idea in state of Pennsylvania started by the local Serbs in Steelton in the middle of 1912, when, following the initiative of the orthodox priest Teofil H. Stefanovic, they founded the Serbian Sokol Society. The subject of this research is Serbian Sokolism in America (USA) with the aim to explore when this society was founded, who took part in those and other activities until June 1914. During research authors used historical method.
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