We started by telling the story of El Batallón de San Patricio(“Saint Patrick’s Battalion”), aka the San Patricios, Irish immigrants to the United States who fought on the ...

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 ...

At Fredericksburg, Pickett's men cut down the courageous "Irish brigade ... He distinguished himself in battle during the Mexican-American War and on the frontier, along the Texas border and ...

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 ...

4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...