The Colored Orphan Asylum is under siege. A cauldron of resentment, anti-authority, and racial tensions rise as the city ...

the legendary “Fighting 69th,” i.e., Meagher’s Irish Brigade of the American Civil War. The Meagher in question was Brigadier General Thomas Francis Meagher (August 3, 1823-July 1 ...

There is little doubt that many Irishmen enlisted in the Union Army very shortly after their arrival in the United States. Editor's note: On this day April 12, 1861, the Confederate Army opened ...

As a teenager, he was an apprentice to the Irish American photographer ... For the first year of the Civil War, O’Sullivan worked with Brady, and then in 1862 became assistant to colleague ...

Mathew Brady's legacy is synonymous with the photographic legacy of the Civil ... Irish parents in Warren County, New York, in 1823. Brady was 15 years old when he met William Page, the American ...

Perhaps the most well-known nativist movement arose in the decades before the Civil War. The American Party ... used ethnic stereotypes to depict Irish and German immigrants as national threats ...