North Carolina History Project Director Troy Kickler has been developing expertise of forgotten founder Nathaniel Macon while compiling a chronicle of Macon’s correspondence. Kickler learned recently that he will share his Macon knowledge in a panel discussion for the 2008 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. In the panel titled “Religion, Tolerance, and the Rule of Law in the Founding and Early Republic,” Kickler will explore how “one of the leading American statesmen of the early republic era defined liberty, battled government encroachment, embodied republicanism, interpreted the Constitution, and influenced a certain strain of modern-day conservatism.”
