The novelist and critic Forrest Reid was born at 20 Mount Charles, Belfast, on June 24 1875 into an Ulster-Scots and ...

The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and writes about.

When I saw images of the homes of immigrant families in Ballymena with loyalist flags placed in their windows to ward off racist mobs, and ...

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and Antietam, and the war's lasting impact on the United States ...

In a first-of-its-kind ceremony in Westmoreland County Monday, dozens honored the final Union Civil War veteran buried in the county, John E. Weigel.

For more than a century in Des Moines’s Glendale Cemetery, the remains of 15 Union Civil War veterans rested in unmarked graves. They remained unmarked until Thursday, when the culmination of ...

In April 1640 Charles was forced to summon a new Parliament in order to raise enough funds for war. In November 1641, further antagonisms came to the fore, this time in Ireland. Irish Catholics, ...

During the English Civil War, the Keiths initially backed the Covenanters, but later turned Royalists and after the execution of King Charles I, they were among the Scots who pledged allegiance to ...

Dunnottar eventually fell into English possession until William Wallace seized it in 1297 during the Scottish War of Independence. It's believed he held 4,000 prisoners in the castle before having ...

Stunning clifftop castle that was once used to hide the country's crown jewels A castle, that now lies in ruins, was once used to hide the country's crown jewels from an invading English army ...

As waves of Scots Presbyterians migrated to Antrim in the 17th century, the native Irish were pushed into the remote Glens or survived on a small coastal area in the far north-east.