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 ...
“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 ...
What do we mean by “individualism” in the American tradition? It is not separatist or atomistic, but rather freedom from having state actors running one’s ...
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 ...
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, ...
Despite once referencing the 2002 movie Gangs of New York, when referring to immigrant crime rates, Vice President JD Vance is of Irish origin. in his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, Vance wrote: "To ...
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 ...
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