Board Decisions for Unsolicited Grants 2015

The Board will be making its decisions about the Unsolicited Grants on February 26, 2015.    Applicants will be informed about the results after this date. Thank you for your patience!

In Memory of John C. Whitehead (1922-2015)

Top Goldman-Sachs Executive Aided Hungarian Refugees in 1956 PRESS RELEASE February 10, 2015 In Memoriam John C. Whitehead 1922-2015 Top Goldman-Sachs Executive Aided Hungarian Refugees in 1956   Members of the Hungarian American Coalition are saddened to learn...

Introducing Neumann Society: Meet the #HUNNOVATORS

Introducing Neumann Society: Meet the #HUNNOVATORS The modern diesel engine, ballpoint pen, holography, computer, Rubik’s cube, Ányos Jedlik, Joseph Galamb, Dénes Gábor, John von Neumann, Prezi, LogMeIn, Ustream –Hungarians have never been short of creativity, talent,...

The US and Hungary under the Dual Monarchy

Throughout the last decades of the 19th century, American attention was increasingly drawn towards Hungary, especially due to increased Hungarian immigration to the US. One of the results of the failed 1848 revolution was the gradual recognition by the Habsburg...

The first large wave of Hungarian emigration to the US

The constant influx of Hungarian emigrants was marked by several waves of sharp increase. The first large wave occurred in 1849-1850. Agoston Haraszthy, traveler, writer, town-builder and pioneer winemaker, who settled in Wisconsin in 1840, was the first Hungarian to...

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