“Against my consent”: Confessions of a discouraged Irish-American
Finding a job was a common worry in Iowa as the Financial Panic of 1857 lingered. Many Iowans headed to the South where jobs were a-plenty. For example, engineer William…
You can’t outrun the long arm of the law
Governments on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line had an insatiable desire for military recruits. Pennsylvania native Samuel H. Bulger found this out during the Civil War. Samuel had moved…