The blood-soaked history of Scotch-Irish settlers on the early American frontier—and its echoes in today’s politics.

In December 1763, the “Paxton Boys,” a vigilante group of white settlers on the Pennsylvania frontier, killed and scalped six Conestoga Indians living under the colonial government’s protection on a ...

Historians discuss the various cultural identities of Irish people, looking at the Celts, Vikings, Normans, Scots, English, and Anglo-Irish. Historians discuss the various cultural identities of ...

In addition to settlers from Great Britain ... Poverty in Northern Ireland forced a massive flight of Scots-Irish to the colonies. The majority of white colonists resided in the North, but ...

For the Ulster poets this was a form of Lowland Scots which developed in Ulster and was in some respects influenced by the Irish of the native population and by the speech of English settlers. The ...

More often, these settlers were Methodists ... is home to a culturally diverse mix of British Americans (especially Scots Irish), African Americans, Italians, Lebanese, Germans, Greeks, Chinese ...