“Scots-Irish,” a popular label among American conservatives today, has long been a kind of shorthand for mythic ideas about what makes someone a “real American.” ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...