Category: History

JÁNOS HUNYADI,
A HERO FOR ALL EUROPE

János Hunyadi’s father, Vajk, came from Wallachia (now southern Romania) to the court of the Hungarian King Sigismund of Luxemburg, and received the estate of Hunyadvár (today Vajdahunyad in Hungarian and Hunedoara in Romanian, located in Transylvania, Romania) as a perpetual gift in 1409. János, who was born a few

COURAGE AND SELF SACRIFICE: LESSONS
FROM THE LIFE OF JÁNOS HUNYADI

Speech delivered at the inauguration of János Hunyadi’s statue inMarosvásárhely (Târgu Mureș, Romania), on 30 July 2022 I would like to thank everyone who played a role in the creation and placement of János Hunyadi’s statue. They are the ones who made this day possible. And I believe that today’s

CHALLENGES TO THE INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE REGIME AND THE REFUGEE DEFINITION

Part II REGIONAL CONVENTIONS EXPANDING THE REFUGEE DEFINITION The UN Declaration on Territorial Asylum in December 1967 was in fact only the initial step towards working out a broader definition of refugees in need of international protection. 1UN General Assembly, ‘Declaration on Territorial Asylum’, 14 December 1967, A/RES/2312(XXII), www.refworld.org/docid/3b00f05a2c.html, accessed

Memory, Commemoration, Crisis

Fulbright, Arkansas, and the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Fulbright Program, 1946–2021 Part II Fulbright Program anniversaries have been plagued by crises every twenty-five years. In 1971, a dramatic 40 per cent cut in its budget—caused by the crushing pressure military spending for the Vietnam War put on all ‘non-essential’ expenditures

Memory, Commemoration, Crisis

Fulbright, Arkansas, and the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Fulbright Program, 1946–2021 Part II Fulbright Program anniversaries have been plagued by crises every twenty-five years. In 1971, a dramatic 40 per cent cut in its budget—caused by the crushing pressure military spending for the Vietnam War put on all ‘non-essential’ expenditures

SAINT STEPHEN SCHOOL IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

Tamás Krump, a Hungarian Christian, Founds a Schoolin the Most Populous Muslim Country in the World In 2001, I sojourned at a parish home led by the Jesuit Father István Jaschkó in Taiwan. I strolled through the rooms of the institution, noting the tender care lavished on every aspect of

Memory, Commemoration, Crisis

Fulbright, Arkansas, and the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Fulbright Program, 1946–2021 Part I The commemoration of a program that is as well established and well-known as the Fulbright Program is problematic even under the best circumstances. The post-Second-World-War origins of the Fulbright Program are distant; its history and architecture are

RANZ FERDINAND
HAD NOT DIED IN SARAJEVO

A Counterfactual History of Hungary, 1914–1919* Alternative or counterfactual history is not merely fiction or wishful thinking. According to E. H. Carr in his seminal What is History? (1961), the historian’s task is to ‘explain why one course was eventually chosen rather than another’. But while he—like so many other