Vanishing country houses of Ireland

Historic House Museums in the United States and the United Kingdom: A History addresses the phenomenon of historic houses as a distinct species of museum. Everyone understands the ...

The earliest forms of personal dwellings were constructed out of ice, stone, mud, and other materials locally found. Whether a tent or simple dwelling for an ordinary citizen, or a...

Ireland and the Irish are beloved today in the United States, not the least because of the large Irish-American population. The Irish have contributed a great deal to the Western l...

This chapter explores how the Country Music Association and the Country Music Foundation have shaped the telling of country music history. It traces the development of the Foundati...

Timothy Dodge explores African American interest in and participation in country music dates from the earliest days of the recording industry’s racial segregation of vernacular mus...

Archaeology (excavation, building survey, scientific dating) has established that peasant houses in much of Britain had a durability that was probably exceptional in late medieval ...