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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - With St. Patrick’s Day right around the corner people in our community are celebrating the history of the Irish Community here in Savannah. In Monday’s Saluting the Irish - ...

In September of 1861, Thomas Meagher began recruiting Irishmen to form a new Irish brigade. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day (known in Gaelic as Lá Fhéile Pádraig, i.e. “the Day of the Festival of ...

Scituate was a center of the Irish mossing industry in the 19th and 20th centuries, attracting Irish immigrants seeking work. The Irish mossing industry in Scituate declined in the late 20th century ...