Hungarian Americans in the Current of History

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THE AUTHORS
Steven Béla Várdy, Ph.D., is McAnulty Distinguished Professor of European History at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the long-time Director of Duquesne University History Forum, and fomier Chainnan of the Department of History. He is an invited member of the International PE.N. and the Hungarian Writers' Federation, and the author, coauthor or co-editor of nearly two dozen books and over six hundred articles, essays, and reviews. In addition to a dozen major research grants. Professor Várdy is the recipient of Duquesne University's "Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship" (1984), Hungary's "Berzsenyi Prize" (1992), the Árpád Academy's "Gold Medal" (1997), the "Cross of Knighthood" awarded by the President of the Republic of Hungary (2001), the "Pro Libertate Award" of the Rákóczi Foundation (2005), the Gold Medal of the Hungarian Revolutionary Committee (2006), and an Honorary Doctorate from King Louis the Great University (2007). In... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE AUTHORS
Steven Béla Várdy, Ph.D., is McAnulty Distinguished Professor of European History at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the long-time Director of Duquesne University History Forum, and fomier Chainnan of the Department of History. He is an invited member of the International PE.N. and the Hungarian Writers' Federation, and the author, coauthor or co-editor of nearly two dozen books and over six hundred articles, essays, and reviews. In addition to a dozen major research grants. Professor Várdy is the recipient of Duquesne University's "Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship" (1984), Hungary's "Berzsenyi Prize" (1992), the Árpád Academy's "Gold Medal" (1997), the "Cross of Knighthood" awarded by the President of the Republic of Hungary (2001), the "Pro Libertate Award" of the Rákóczi Foundation (2005), the Gold Medal of the Hungarian Revolutionary Committee (2006), and an Honorary Doctorate from King Louis the Great University (2007). In 2010 he was also elected to the membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which is the highest honor the country can bestow upon scholars and scientists.
At the moment, Professor Várdy is involved in several research projects, centered on the topics of ethnic cleansing and the Soviet Gulag slave labor camps, about which he has already co-authored three volumes. He is also writing a new history of Hungarian Americans and their contributions to the development of American society.
Agnes Huszár Várdy, Ph.D., a former * Professor of English and Communications at Robert Morris University, is now >
Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at Duquesne University. She is í an invited member of the International P.E.N, and the Hungarian Writers' Federa- ' tion, and the author, co-author, or co- t
editor of ten scholarly books and over 100 j articles, essays, and reviews. She is also the author of two historical-social novels {Mimi, in English and Hungarian, 1997-2007; and My Italian Summer, 2007), of which the first is used as obligatory reading at several Pittsburgh-based universities and is being considered for a movie.
In addition to a dozen major fellowships and research grants. Professor Agnes Huszár Várdy is the recipient of Hungary's "Berzsenyi Prize" (1992), the Árpád Academy's "Gold Medal" (1998), the Rákóczi Foundation's "Pro Libertate Award" (2005), the Gold Medal of the Hungarian Revolutionary Committee (2006), and an Honorary Doctorate from King Louis the Great University (2007).
At the moment, Professor Agnes Várdy is continuing her research on the Soviet Gulag, and working on the Hungarian translation of her most recent novel, My Italian Summer, as well as on the sequel to her successful first novel, Mimi.
Hungarian Americans in the Current of History
Authors Steven Béla Várdy and Agnes Huszár Várdy are internationally renowned for their prolific research in the field of Hungarian Studies. Writing in two languages (English and Hungarian), their work is scattered throughout numerous scholarly books and journals world-wide. This current volume contains a selection of their articles about the Hungarian American experience, including four articles on Louis Kossuth's visit to the United States following the Revolution of 1848-1849; two articles on the political activities of Hungarian Americans during and immediately after World War II; and one article each on the topics of Hungarian American history in general, the relationship of Hungarian Americans to the mother country, the changing image and self-image of Hungarian Americans since the mid-19th century, the question of dual and multiple identity from the vantage point of Hungarian Americans, the fate of Hungarian victims of the steel mills and coal mines of early 20th-century Western Pennsylvania, and finally, the unfortunate relationship between Hungarians and Slovaks in tum-of-the-century America.
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