“The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and writes about. He tried to explain to me why, over the years from Colonial ...

The Muheconneok, the People of the River that Runs Two Ways, got here first. The Dutch were next, soon followed by the English (and the Africans, with no say in the matter, who were brought forcibly).

The Irish immigrants in the United States over the last 250 years has left a lasting legacy, that being how Americans speak. The tapestry of American accents and dialects is a rich and diverse mosaic, ...