One of my favorite moments when teaching history is when a student realizes the way a specific event in the past directly affects them. The American Historical Association is fond of the phrase “Everything has a History.” Yet this disconnect between past and present is rather foreign to Hungarian culture, a notable example of this …
Continue reading The Treaty of Trianon (1920) & the Memorial of National Unity (2020)
If Rome is the city of seven hills, Budapest is the city of seven bridges. In fact, Budapest did not come in existence until 1873, prior to that it was two cities, Buda and Pest, divided by the Danube River. The process that would merge the two cities began in 1840 with the commencement of …
This past week I attended orientation with the Hungarian-American Fulbright Commission which allowed me to meet the other students and scholars visiting Hungary from the US. In addition to crash courses in language, culture, music, politics, economics, higher education, and living abroad, we also had a couple of guided tours. So, it seems an appropriate …
Continue reading Travelogue: Visegrád & Mátyás Királyi Palota
Patrick C. Leech 