Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania by Peter E. Gilmore

Posted by on Apr 14, 2020 in | Comments Off on Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania by Peter E. Gilmore Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770–1830 by Peter E. Gilmore University of Pittsburgh Press, 248 pp., hardcover $27.95 The Scots-Irish have always captured the imaginations of historians. Images of hardscrabble frontiersmen, ferocious both in their devotion to Presbyterianism and their hostility toward the Indians they hoped to displace from their new Canaan, have...
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The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania by Judith Ridner

Posted by on Mar 6, 2020 in | Comments Off on The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania by Judith Ridner The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania A Varied People by Judith Ridner Temple University Press/The Pennsylvania Historical Association, 140 pp., paper $19.95 The Scots Irish are recognized as among the largest non-English ethnic groups found in 18th-century Pennsylvania. But who, exactly, were they? In Judith Ridner’s eminently readable account, these migrants from Ireland’s northern province of...
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