by HIF | Mar 5, 2014 | Common History
A Hungarian Touch in the Life of the Legendary John Smith John Smith (1580 – 1631) was an English soldier, explorer and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Bathory, Prince of Transylvania and Mózes Székely. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony ,...
by HIF | Mar 1, 2014 | News
The results of the language education and art and culture applications Last week, the Board of Trustees of The Hungary Foundation has announced the results of the language education and art and culture applications. The language education Request for Proposals was...
by HIF | Feb 11, 2014 | Organizations in Focus
In our next installment of Organizations in Focus, we would like to introduce the Hungarian Human Rights Foundation (HHRF), an organization that defends the rights of Hungarian minority communities in Europe. The Hungarian Human Rights Foundation (founded in 1976) has...
by HIF | Feb 10, 2014 | Common History
Roughly, 140 Hungarians fought in the war, and one of them, Colonel Commandant Michael Kováts became a war hero. Maybe, it is a not well-known fact that Hungarians stood out for the United States during the time of some historical turning points. One of these...
by HIF | Jan 27, 2014 | Common History
The Hungarian presence in America goes back a long way. The first Hungarian ever to set foot on the soil of the New World was a sixteenth century humanist and Protestant scholar, Stephanus Parmenius Budaeus. There are only a few facts that we know for certain about...
