“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 ...

Pennsylvania and Ireland have had a long and rich historical association. It stretches back to the era of William Penn in the late 17th century, establishing a critical influence on the development of ...

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 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, ...

DERRY — As St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated in Derry and Londonderry, the founding of the two towns can be traced to a group of Scotch-Irish settlers who arrived in the area in 1719. And when it comes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...