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Publications

    Books


    1. "Világostól Appomatoxig": Magyarok az amerikai polgárháborúban. [From Világos to Appomatox: Hungarians in the American Civil War] (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2011.)

    2. Charles Loring Brace. Magyarország 1851-ben.[Hungary in 1851] (Szerk. Lévai Csaba és Vida István Kornél) (Máriabesnyő-Gödöllő: Attraktor Kiadó, 2006.)

    Articles


    1. "Magyar katonák a Konföderáció hadseregében. Estván Béla szélhámos pályafutása." [Hungarian Soldiers in the Confederate Army: The Swindling Career of Béla Estván] in Gyarmatokból Impérium: Magyar kutatók tanulmányai az amerikai történelemről. [Empire out of Colonies: Hungarian Researchers' Essays on the History of the United States](Ed. Tibor Frank) (Gondolat Kiadó: Budapest, 2007.), pp. 72-87.

    2. "International Fraud or Southern Hero?: Col. Estván Béla, Hungarian (?) Cavalry Officer in the Confederate Army" in Vasváry Collection Newsletter (2007/2) Accessible:
      http://www.sk-szeged.hu/statikus_html/vasvary/newsletter/07dec/estvan.html

    3. "Egy ágyban Abraham Lincolnnal, avagy homoszexuális volt-e az Egyesült Államok tizenhatodik elnöke?," in Aetas (2007/1.), pp. 86-103.

    4. "A társadalomtörténészek megnyerték Amerika háborúit? [Have social historians won America's wars?] Review of John P. Resch (ed.) Americans at War: Society, Culture and the Homefront. 4 vols. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.) in Klió 2007/2, pp. 3-6."

    5. "All Quiet for Forty Years: The Hungarian Participation in the American Civil War. A Historiographical Essay," in Europe and the World in European Historiography (Ed. Csaba Lévai) (Pisa, Italy: Pisa University Press, 2006.), pp. 231-241.

    6. "Két nemzet határán: a Kossuth-emigráció és az állampolgárság amerikai megítélése a XIX. század derekán" [On the Borderline Between Two Nations: Kossuth Emigration and the Interpretation of Citizenship in the United States in the Mid-19th century.] Nemzet és Állam a XIX.-XX. században. [Nation and state in the 19th-20th century] (Eds. Erzsébet Bodnár and Gábor Demeter) (Debrecen, 2006.)

    7. "Jefferson Davis' Hungarians: Soldiers of Hungarian Birth in the Confederate Army with a Case Study," in My Fulbright Experience. (Hungarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange: Budapest, 2006.), pp. 201- 216.

    8. "The Concept of Citizenship and the Hungarian Immigrants in the United States in the 1850's: A Case Study," in Citizenship in Historical Perspective. (Eds. S.G. Ellis, G. Hálfdanarson, A.K. Isaacs) (Pisa, Italy: Pisa University Press, 2006.), pp. 227-236.

    9. "'A történelem pokoli dolog. Nagyon tud fájni' - A rabszolgaság megítélése." [History is a Horrible Thing. It Can Hurt a Lot] Review of Berlin, Ira. "American Slavery in History and Memory and the Search for Social Justice." Journal of American History, March/2004, pp. 1251-1268. In Klió 2005/2, pp. 44-48.

    10. "Race and Reunion" Book Review of David Blight: Race and Reunion (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001) In American Studies International, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA. (February 2004.)

    11. "Abraham Lincoln átformálja az elnöki hivatalt" [Abraham Lincoln Reshapes the Executive Branch of Government] Book Review of: Charles M. Hubbard (Ed.) Lincoln Reshapes the Presidency. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2003.) in Klió 2004/3, pp. 127-131.

    12. "The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference" Book review: Wagner Gallagher (Ed.) The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference (Simon and Schuster, N.Y., 2002) In Hadtörténelmi Közlemények [Military History Review] (2003/2), pp.607-610.
    13. "Abraham Lincoln és az Unió tábornokainak viszonya az észak-amerikai polgárháborúban" [The Relationship between Abraham Lincoln and the Generals of the Union Army in the American Civil War] In Hadtörténelmi Közlemények. [Military History Review] (2002/1), pp.111-139.

    14. "Abraham Lincoln és az emancipáció kérdése" [Abraham Lincoln and the Issue of Emancipation] in Aetas 2001/1. pp. 165-176.

    15. "Doing Away with Myths: A New Look at the Hungarians' Participation in the American Civil War". Hungarian National Students' Conference Paper, 2001. Szeged, Hungary.

    16. "Magyar katona a Konföderáció fogságában" [Hungarian Soldier in the Custody of the Confederacy] - Book review of Beszedits, Stephen. The Libby Prison Diary of Colonel Emeric Szabad. B&L Information Services, Toronto, 1999. Published in Klió 2001/3 pp. 108-115.

    17. "Az USA hadseregének társadalmi összetétele 1802-1815" [The Social Set-up of the U.S. Army between 1802 and 1815]. Review of Stagg, J. C. A. "Soldiers in Peace and War. Comparative Perspectives on the Recruitment of the United States Army, 1802-1815". William and Mary Quarterly, January, 2000. pp. 79-120. Published in Klió 2000/3 pp. 90-95.

    18. "Katonaföldrajz Észak-Amerikában" [Military Geography in North-America] Book review of Keegan, John. The Military Geography of the American Civil War. 36th Annual Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture, Gettysburg College, 1997. In Klió 2000/1. pp. 89-95.

    19. "'A régóta elnyomottak barátai': Magyar katonák az észak-amerikai polgárháború néger ezredeiben," in Aetas. (2008/2), pp. 68-82.

    20. "'American and Un-American Immigration': European Otherness in the Context of Old and New Immigration in the United States"in Global Encounters-European Identities. (Eds. Harris, M., Agnarsdóttir, A., Lévai, Cs.) (Pisa: Plus-Pisa University Press, 2010.), pp. 119-125.

    21. "A 'Régi Bevándorlás' a gazdaságtörténész szemével"[The 'Old Immigration' through the eyes of an economic historian] Book review of Raymond K. Cohn. Mass Migration Under Sail: European Immigration to the Antebellum United States. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp.254. In: Klió (2010/4), pp. 104-106.

    22. "'Elnök úré lesz a kezem': Mary Lincoln tragédiákkal telt ellentmondásos élete" I Will Marry the President: The Tragic and Controversial Life of Mary Lincoln]in Múlt-Kor (2010/2), pp. 58-63.

    23. "Extra Hungariam Non Est Vita, Si Est Vita, Non Est Ita: The Hungarian Diaspora in the Antebellum United States" in European Migrants, Diasporas, and Indigenous Ethnic Minorities. (Eds. Matjaz Klemencic and Mary N. Harris) (Pisa: Plus-Pisa University Press, 2009), pp. 37-53.

    24. "'A Foil'd European Revolutionaire': The American Renaissance Meets Lajos Kossuth," Hungarian Studies Review, Special Issue: Hungary and North America: Links and Interactions, 1850-2010, Vol. XXXVIII, Nos. 1-2 (2011), pp. 9-28.

    25. "A Lincoln kutatók éve" Book review of: Burlingame, Michael. Ed. Abraham Lincoln: A Life. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008); Ronald C. White Jr. A. Lincoln: A Biography (New York: Random House, 2009); John Stauffer. Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln (New York: Twelve, 2008.) In Klió 2010/1, pp. 12-16.

    26. "Not Only the Genie of the Lamp Can Help: Genealogy and Researching the 'Lost' Two Decades of Hungarian Emigration to the United States, 1850-1870" in Eger Journal of American Studies. Vol. IX, 2005, pp. 179-192.

    27. "'Sustained by Mr. Jefferson': Colonizationism as Jeffersonian Heritage in Abraham Lincoln's Thinking," in Eger Journal of American Studies. Special Issue in Honor of Professor Zoltán Abádi-Nagy. Vol. XII/2., 2010, pp. 593-601.

    28. "The Participation of Hungarian Political Emigrants in the American Civil War," in EAAS Newsletter (November 2008), pp. 31-32.

    29. "'To See This Great Country United Again': The Motivations of Hungarian Soldiers to Take Part in the American Civil War," in To The Memory of Sarolta Kretzoi. (Ed. Lehel Vadon) (Eger: Eszterházy Károly College Department of American Studies, 2009), pp. 293-310.

    Conference Lectures and Workshops

    1. December 2010, "Sándor Asbóth : The Hero of Two Nations" Conference, Keszthely, Hungary. Paper: "In Defence of the Union: Sándor Asbóth in the American Civil War" Read out by György Kurucz

    2. November 2010, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Network Meeting, Freiberg, Germany. Participant.

    3. June 2010, Social Science Education Consortium, Conference. Hungarian-American Relations: Historical Views and Future Possibilities for Teaching and Learning. Debrecen. Paper: "Hungarians in the American Civil War"

    4. March 2010, Cliohres.net Conference, Royal Flemish Academy, Brussels, Belgium, Workshop, participant.

    5. February 2009, Cliohres.net Conference,Bamberg, Germany, Workshop participant.

    6. October 2008, HAAS Conference, Szeged, Hungary. Paper: "Extra Hungariam Non Est Vita": Hungarian 'Old Immigrants' in the Antebellum US.

    7. March 2008 Conference on Central Europe and the English-Speaking World, Oradea, Romania. Delivered lecture entitled "An Icebox, a Liberty Ship, and a Letter 'Z': Hungarian-Romanian Ethnic Rivalries and the American Career of a Kossuth Émigré"

    8. February 2008, CLIOHRES.net, Creating Links and Innovative Overviews to Enhance Historical Perspective in European Culture. Conference, Debrecen, Hungary. Delivered talk entitled "American Traveler in Post-1848 Hungary: Charles Loring Brace's Hungary in 1851"

    9. November 2007,CLIOHRES.net, Creating Links and Innovative Overviews to Enhance Historical Perspective in European Culture, Plenary Meeting, Salina Bay, Malta. Participant

    10. April 2007, Conference on Central Europe and the English-Speaking World, Oradea, Romania. Delivered lecture entitled "The American Bölöni: Charles Loring Brace's Hungary in 1851"

    11. October 2006 HAAS Conference, Pécs, Hungary. Delivered lecture entitled "The Misinterpretation of Masculinity and Sexuality on the American Frontier: Was Abraham Lincoln Gay?"

    12. December 2005: CLIOHRES.net, Creating Links and Innovative Overviews to Enhance Historical Perspective in European Culture. Conference. Delivered plenary lecture entitled "Citizenship and Hungarian Immigrants in the United States in the Late Ante-bellum Era". The University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.

    13. August 2005: CLIOHRES.net, Creating Links and Innovative Overviews to Enhance Historical Perspective in European Culture. Conference. Delivered lecture entitled "The Elephant and the Mouse: Researching Hungarian-American Historical Links and Contacts". Debrecen, Hungary.

    14. January 2005: HUSSE Conference: Delivered talk entitled "Jefferson Davis's Hungarians: Col. Béla Estván, Hungarian Cavalry Officer in the Confederate Army. A Case Study." Veszprém, Hungary.

    15. May 2002: "TOEFL test-taking strategies workshop." Fulbright Educational Advising Center, Budapest, Hungary. Participant.

    16. April 2001: National Students's Conference, Szeged, Hungary. Held lecture titled "Doing Away with Myths: A New Look at the Hungarians' Participation in the American Civil War"

    17. 1998: California Gordon Institute Teacher's Training Program, Debrecen, Hungary

István Kornél Vida
Assistant Professor

North American Department of the Insitute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen

Post: 4010 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1, Pf. 73, Hungary

Phone: 36-52-512-900/23093
Fax: 36-52-431-147

E-mail: vidaik@yahoo.com