Online Resources
Explore this collection of Appalachian Hungarian history found in online resources including literary remains, digital images, oral narratives, and academic research.
Explore this collection of Appalachian Hungarian history found in online resources including literary remains, digital images, oral narratives, and academic research.
How We Owned a Mine, or A Brief History of Kentucky’s Mining Cooperative. A recent article about AHHP and Himlerville at Y’all
Magyar Bányászlap. A searchable collection of many issues of Martin Himler’s Hungarian Miner’s Journal digitized by the National Széchényi Library and located at the University of Szeged Klebelsberg Library. Non-Hungarian language researchers may wish to consider the DeepL App to assist with translations.
Himler, Himlerville and a Historian’s Quest. An Appalachian History.net interview with Dr Doug Cantrell.
The Himler House. Restoration Project at Beauty, Kentucky.
The Mártons: From Transylvania to West Virginia. A closer look at one of many Hungarian families in West Virginia at Appalachian History.net
The Magyars of Morgantown, at Appalachian History.net
The Hungarians, a brief but useful West Virginia Encyclopedia article.
Hungarian Victims of the Steel Mills and Coal Mines of Western Pennsylvania: As Reflected in the Émigré Poetry of that Age (PDF). Excellent article that also includes material from the southern Appalachian coalfields.
"Tallapoosa/Budapest, Georgia.” Destination: The Americas provides a rare look at an active 1880s Hungarian community in the hills of northwest Georgia.
Matewan Before the Massacre: Politics, Coal, and the Roots of Conflict in Mingo County, 1793-1920 (PDF). Rebecca J. Bailey’s WVU PhD Dissertation. Provides insight into Hungarian laborer’s reticence to participate in some of the mining wars.
“Mixed Up in the Coal Camp”: Interethnic, Family, and Community Exchanges in Matewan During the West Virginia Mine Wars, 1900-1922. Lela Dawn Gourley’s Old Dominion University MA Thesis contains information on some aspects of Hungarian social history.
Hungarian Catholic Cemetery at Thorpe, West Virginia (YouTube), a brief video by the Appalachian Project.
Himlerville, Kentucky, a KET Television Video about Martin Himler’s Cooperative mine experiment.
Hunky Blues (YouTube). A Hungarian Language documentary using archival photographs and film documenting early 20th century Hungarian immigrants to the US.