In a world that is increasingly homogenous, we need to do all we can to nurture the cultural markers that make human beings ...

Scots-Irish immigrants, the first European settlers in large numbers to southwestern Pennsylvania, are typically associated with the region’s industrial takeoff. Their legacy includes Gilded Age ...

Complaining to James Monroe around 1780 about what he considered to be the cause of a deterioration in American politics, the ...

“The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and writes about. He tried to explain to me why, over the years from Colonial ...

Introduction: Identity in an Atlantic world -- The transformation of Ulster society in the wake of the Glorious Revolution -- "Satan's sieve": crisis and community in Ulster -- "On the wing for ...

I. Scot in 1600. Poverty and insecurity -- Domestic life of the Lowland Scot -- Scottish social institutions in 1600 -- Religion in Scotland -- Mind and character of the Lowlander -- II. Scots in ...

The Indiana County Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution is honoring the life of Captain Fergus Moorhead, who was a frontier settler, Revolutionary War patriot and one of the earliest ...

Discover how German, Scottish, Irish, and English immigrants .....farming traditions that built the foundation of American agriculture.

The earliest days of Gwinnett County witnessed rapid growth as the Cherokee, Yuchi, and Muscogee (Creek) lands were ceded to ...

Kerby Miller is the author of numerous scholarly publications on Irish history. His book Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America won the Merle Curti Award Best Book in US ...