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Dr. Troy Kickler

Email: tkickler@johnlocke.org

Troy Kickler has been Director of the North Carolina History Project since August 2005. He holds an M.S. in Social Studies Education from North Carolina A&T State University and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Tennessee. His specialty areas are nineteenth-century U.S., Civil War and Reconstruction, African American, and religious history.

A recipient of numerous research awards and study grants, Kickler has taught at the secondary and post-secondary levels, including formerly at the University of Tennessee and Central Carolina Community College and currently at North Carolina State University.

A recipient of an Earhart Foundation research grant, Kickler is currently co-editor of Nathaniel Macon: Collected Letters and Speeches. He is also writing Black Children and Northern Missionaries, Southern Conservatives, Freedmen’s Bureau Agents, and Freedmen in Reconstruction Tennessee, 1865-1869.

He has served as editorial assistant for the Journal of East Tennessee History and has written articles and reviews for such publications as American Diplomacy, Carolina Journal, Chronicles, H-Civil War, Journal of Mississippi History, Tennessee Baptist History, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, and The Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians. He has also contributed to the upcoming Exploring American History: From Colonial Times to 1877; Encyclopedia of American Environmental History; and The Old West: Yesterday and Today.

Kickler previously was a high school social studies teacher and soccer coach and thinks that few things are more exciting than curling a direct kick around a wall of defenders and the outstretched hands of a diving goalie.


Articles by Dr. Troy Kickler

(7.09.10) Some Things I Will Never Understand
A soccer fan wonders why many Americans diss their countrymen who excel in the “beautiful game.”

(6.18.10) Free Markets Benefit More Than Entrepreneurs Who Get Rich
The "rags to riches" stories of Horatio Alger were more than entertainment. They reminded Americans what could be accomplished with hard work, savvy, determination, and a little luck.

(4.14.10) Focus On Fairness From Census Paints Troubling Portrait of America
RALEIGH -- "Don't ask unless you are willing to hear [can deal with] the answer." That advice comes to mind after I've been wondering whether Americans now comprise a nation of takers and are no longer creators, innovators, or rugged individualists.

(4.09.10) Focusing on a Fair Share
The latest census reveals a “bothersome” trend in Americans’ approach to their government.

(1.15.10) Some Historical Scholarship Can Tell Us More About the Present Than the Past
The story of a North Carolina slave reveals some historians’ religious biases.

(12.18.09) A Strong Federal System Offers the Best Protection Against Tyranny
RALEIGH -- With the renewed interest in state sovereignty and federalism as alternatives to the current march toward centralization, Americans forget that states can abuse power, too.

(12.04.09) An All-American Partisan Press
RALEIGH — Partisan reporting — what one excludes is often as important as what he or she includes — should no longer hide, as it has been doing for some time, behind a disguise called “objectivity.” With an issue-driven and/or partisan press, viewers, listeners, and readers will know what they are watching, hearing, and reading.

(10.23.09) Much-Maligned Tenthers Have a Point
The Bill of Rights’ final amendment was designed to ensure that states retained authority over many important political decisions.

(10.16.09) Much-Maligned Tenthers Have a Point
RALEIGH -- Since 1789, the major political question has been concerning the paradox of dual sovereignty: To what extent shall we be national and to what extent shall we be federal? To what extent shall the United States government be sovereign and to what extent shall a state be sovereign?

(9.18.09) Imagine today's politicos trading tweets with the Founders
RALEIGH -- How might our modern-day, national politicians fare debating our Founding Fathers? To be honest, I cannot imagine many contemporary political figures — Republican or Democrat — matching wits with most Federalists or Anti-Federalists.

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