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 ...
That was the theme of former U.S. Senator, Marine and author James Webb’s presentation at UVA Wise on Wednesday, as he drew upon themes in his 2004 history of Scots-Irish migration to North America, ...
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 ...
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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