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The United States and Hungary, 1848-2000

(Az Egyesült Államok és Magyarország, 1848-2000)

 

M.A. seminar, 2 hrs/wk, 4 credits
Instructor: Tibor Frank, Ph.D., D.Litt., Professor

Students in this class mainly examine the interactive patterns of outward migration from Hungary as well as American immigration. Attention will be given to the great waves of Hungarian emigration, to major figures and outstanding achievements. U.S.-Hungarian diplomatic relations will be particularly scrutinized. Papers will survey the period from the mid-19th century through recent years.

 

Seminar Topics

• Hungarian Travellers in pre-1848 U.S.
• The Kossuth Exiles 1849-1867
• Hungary and the "New" Emigration, 1880-1914
• The Social Construction of Hungarian Emigrants
• The Literacy Bill and Its Impact on Hungary
• Emigration and Remigration
• Joseph Pulitzer
• World War I and the Coming of the Quota Laws
• The Impact of the Quota Laws on Hungary
• The Role of the Hungarian Numerus Clausus:
  Hungarian Professionals in the U.S. 1919-1945
• U.S.-Hungarian Diplomatic Relations 1920-2000
• The D.P.s of 1945
• 1956 and After

 

Recommended Readings

• Bognar, Desi K. Hungarians in America. A Biographical Directory of Professionals
  of Hungarian Origin in the Americas.
  (Mt. Vernon, N.Y.: AFI Publication, 1971)
• Fejős Zoltán. A chicagói magyarok két nemzedéke 1890-1940.
  Budapest: Közép-Európa Intézet, 1993.
• Frank, Tibor. Ethnicity, Propaganda, Myth-Making: Studies on Hungarian Connections
  to Britain and America, 1848-1945.
  Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1999.
• Hargittai, István. The Martians of Science.
  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Puskás, Julianna. Ties That Bind, Ties That Divide:
  100 Years of Hungarian Experience in the United States.
  New York-London: Holmes & Meier, 2000.
• Rácz István. A paraszti migráció és politikai megítélése Magyarországon 1849-1914.
  Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1980.
• Tezla, Albert ed. The Hazardous Quest. Hungarian Immigrants in the
  United States 1895-1920.
  Budapest: Corvina, 1993.
• Vasvári Ödön. Magyar Amerika.
  Szeged: Somogyi Könyvtár, 1988.
• Várdy Béla. Magyarok az Újvilágban.
  A Magyar Nyelv és Kultúra Nemzetközi Társasága, 2000.
• Závodszky Géza. Az Amerika-motívum és a polgárosodó Magyarország a kezdetektől 1848-ig.
  Budapest: Atlanti K.és K. Társulat - Tankönyvkiadó, 1992.

 

Requirements

Mandatory attendance and active participation, oral presentation, research paper

 

Grading

Presentation 25%, paper 50%, attendance and participation 25%

 

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