The map of the United States is peppered with Scottish place-names and America's telephone directories are filled with surnames illustrating Scottish ancestry. Increasingly, Americans of Scottish extraction are visiting Scotland in search of their family history.

Product Description: Some 30 million people worldwide claim Scottish ancestry, making the Scots one of the world's largest diasporas. There are few countries around the globe without a Caledonian Society, a Burns Club, a Scottish country dance society, or some similar organization expressing the Scottish social and cultural heritage...read more

A history of the considerable contributions of Scottish citizens as pioneers, revolutionaries, writers, and leaders to American life focuses on such individuals as James Monroe, Andrew Carnegie, Bill Gates, and Donald Trump. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: For almost half a century scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have worked hard to highlight the distinctively Scottish contribution to the emergence of America's national culture. In particular the impact of the Scottish Enlightenment on the educational, political and cultural life of the USA in the 18th and early 19th centuries has been widely studied...read more

Product Description: 1984, hardcover edition, Aberdeen University Press, U.K., 363 pages. Between 1820 and 1920, the close ties that had always existed between Glasgow and America became even more intense with the history and development in each country...read more