Irish Origins and the Shaping of Immigrant Life in Savannah on the Eve of the Civil War

Examines the ways in which Irish immigrants' birth place in Ireland shaped their experiences in their new homes in Savannah, Georgia

Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln\u27s Opponents in the North

A Movement against the Civil War The Copperheads Scholars of Civil War America have long anticipated the publication of a thorough, modern study of the Copperheads. For years, the best general survey of the movement\u27s history has been Wood Gray\u27s The Hidden Civil War. Gr...

Gaming the System: The Not-So-Poor and Savings Banks in Antebellum New York

Savings banks owe their origin to an early nineteenth century campaign to teach the poor thrift and thereby avoid poverty in old age. As an institution they grew and thrived in the following decades, but whether they achieved their objective remains moot. Most account-holders did not accumulate nest eggs in the prescribed manner, and many were not even poor. This paper exploits the rich archives of one New York savings bank to illustrate these points

Which Poor Man's Fight? Immigrants and the Federal Conscription of 1863

Looks at which Americans were most affected by the draft instituted in the North during the American Civil War

Replication data for: "Irish Origins and the Shaping of Immigrant Life in Savannah on the Eve of the Civil War"

This study looks at the residential patterns of Irish immigrants in Savannah on the eve of the American Civil War. It concludes that while some Irish immigrants dispersed randomly about the city, many chose to live in enclaves in which other immigrants from their county or region of Ireland predominated. The data deposited here includes both my Savannah Irish immigrant Database, an Excel file that contains data on every Irish immigrant living in Savannah when the census of 1860 was conducted and attempts to locate them spatially through use of the Savannah city directory of 1860. Also included is a pdf file with fifteen images showing, house-by-house, the birthplace of every adult resident of selected blocks in Savannah's Irish enclaves. Each figure shows the Irish county of birth for each Irish immigrant and the country of birth for all other adults living in the dwelling

City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

These datasets were used to analyze the socio-economic characteristics of New York's immigrants from 1860 to 1950 in my book City of Dreams. Cell A1 in each Excel file contains additional information about the source of the data and how it was analyzed

Replication Data for: "Immigrants, Savings, and Space: The Social and Economic Geography of Irish-American Banking in Civil War America"

Data used in preparation of paper to be presented at the Urban History Association conference in October 2016