history

You may remember celebrating Thanksgiving by tracing your hand to create the outline of a turkey and hearing the story of the harvest meal celebrated by Pilgrims and American Indians…

Just over one hundred years ago—on November 11th, 1918—Germany signed the Armistice that brought World War I to an end. Propagandists’ high-flown rhetoric notwithstanding (“the war to end all wars,”…

The title comes from a memoir by Frederick Douglass, a self-taught escaped slave who was born two hundred years ago this month. During his life, Douglass was celebrated as one…

Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Troy Kickler discussing this press release. RALEIGH — When North Carolina legislators conduct a rare business session Tuesday…

Between February and April 2010, the John Locke Foundation asked over 500 college and university faculty to evaluate selected test questions from North Carolina’s 2008-2009 end-of-course high school civics and economics and U.S. history tests. This study provides an overview of the responses from both the mailed and online surveys.

Click here to view and here to listen to Terry Stoops discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — A newly published survey of North Carolina university faculty members raises…

RALEIGH – As Iraqis seek to meet their historic deadline for fashioning the first constitution of a truly free government in the Arab world, the author of A Patriot’s History…