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.
The goal of the NC History Project is to provide accurate accounts of North Carolina history and to broaden the range of topics typically covered in literature and lessons about North Carolina’s history. Available at NorthCarolinaHistory.org, the site is a great educational resource, especially as North Carolina prepares to celebrate America’s 250th birthday and the Old North State’s role in our nation’s founding.
Thank you for visiting the lesson plans. We hope you consider them useful. If you have any questions, please email [email protected].
You can also download coloring sheets for early learning below!
