“Scots-Irish,” a popular label among American conservatives today, has long been a kind of shorthand for mythic ideas about ...
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 ...
JD Vance, who was announced as Donald Trump’s running mate on Monday, July 15, has written that he most identifies with “the millions of working-class white Americans of Scots-Irish descent who have ...
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