“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 ...

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 ...

JD Vance, who was announced as Donald Trump’s running mate on Monday, July 15, has written that he most identifies with “the millions of working-class white Americans of Scots-Irish descent who have ...

The Irish have been coming to America since before the Revolution. Most of the earliest arrivals were so-called Scotch-Irish from the Protestant north of Ireland, and they settled primarily in the ...

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 ...

To understand changes in the political map, we naturally tend to look for contemporary explanations. But American political alignments are not written on an empty slate. Beginnings matter, and the ...

The Irish immigrants in the United States over the last 250 years has left a lasting legacy, that being how Americans speak. The tapestry of American accents and dialects is a rich and diverse mosaic, ...

Lithograph of the Paxton Boys' 1763 massacre of the Native population in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Published in 1841. Credit: (WikiMedia Commons) In December 1763, the “Paxton Boys,” a vigilante group ...

I have only been outside of North America once, during this past Spring Break when I took a trip to Ireland. Over an insufficient amount of time, my family and I drove all around County Cork, taking a ...

When JD Vance stepped onto Scottish soil on Wednesday he became the second inhabitant of the White House to visit the country in a month. The vice-president is believed to be staying in Ayrshire, just ...