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 ...

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 ...

The United States isn’t exceptional because of our common culture; it’s exceptional because Americans have been able to ...

The earliest days of Gwinnett County witnessed rapid growth as the Cherokee, Yuchi, and Muscogee (Creek) lands were ceded to the state between 1817 and 1825, paving the way for ...

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 ...

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The roots of Irish and African solidarity can be traced to colonial times, when enslaved Africans and indentured Irish servants interacted on British-owned estates in North America. While historical ...