Buies Creek, N.C. – As people across the country struggle with a slumping economy, a presentation this Friday, Feb. 6, will focus on the issue, “What is Money?” Dr. Troy Kickler, Director of the North Carolina History Project, will discuss that topic as part of Campbell University’s luncheon program, First Friday. The program starts at noon at Keith Hills Country Club.
Dr. Kickler’s lecture, “What Is Money?: An Age-Old Question Answered,” is based on a famous article by French classical liberal economist Frederic Bastiat. Dr. Kickler will discuss the historical context of Bastiat’s article and summarize and evaluate Bastiat’s argument. There will be time for the audience to ask questions concerning the work and discuss sound monetary policy for today’s troubled economic times.
As director of the North Carolina History Project, Dr. Kickler is Editor of NorthCarolinahistory.org. 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 19th-century U.S., Civil War and Reconstruction and African-American religious history. A recipient of numerous research awards and study grants, Kickler has taught at the University of Tennessee and Central Carolina Community College and currently teaches 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.
Recently, Dr. Kickler delivered presentations at the American Political Science Association annual conference. He has also led teacher workshops such as “Anti-Federalists, Federalists, and Liberty in North Carolina” at the Jesse Helms Center in Wingate, N.C. For more information, contact Dan Maynard at the Lunday-Fetterman School of Business, 910.893.7930, or é-mail him at [email protected]/* */