During the past few years, scholarship has minimized what most know to be true—that individuals can make a difference, markets can solve problems, ideas matter, and the founders had good ideas to contribute the beginning of the U.S. In the process, many good things in North Carolina’s history—the creation of personal wealth, the benefits of private property, and the positive influence of religious and free market ideas, to name some examples—have been misunderstood. As a result, a vast resource of good ideas and exemplary personalities are forgotten, and possible solutions to current societal problems are overlooked.
To compensate for such cultural losses, the John Locke Foundation started the North Carolina History Project. The latest NCHP effort is to create lesson plans for elementary, middle, and high school students. It will be an evolving and ever-growing website. More lessons will be added. They will temporarily be housed here.
Thank you for visiting reviewing the lesson plans. We hope you consider them useful. If you have any questions, please email [email protected].
