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

“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 ...

Two Atlanta-based filmmakers are seeking support for a documentary that explores how Ulster Scots in Ireland and Scots-Irish in the United States have helped shape Western democracy. "The Scots-Irish ...

Let me add a couple of thoughts to Sean Trende’s excellent Real Clear Politics column on Barack Obama’s weakness in the Scots-Irish zone of America. Trende uses Obama’s weak showings in the West ...

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 ...

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 ...