Jane Shaw Stroup (who also writes as Jane S. Shaw) is chairperson of the Raleigh-based James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, where she retired as president in 2015. Currently, she is an editorial consultant for the John Locke Foundation. She is a coauthor of the new edition of Common Sense Economics (St. Martin’s Press).
Before coming to North Carolina in 2006, Jane was a senior fellow with PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center, in Bozeman, Montana. She wrote and edited many articles about what became known as free market environmentalism. She coauthored Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children about the Environment with Michael Sanera (Regnery) and co-edited A Guide to Smart Growth with Ron Utt (Heritage Foundation). Before joining PERC, she was an associate economics editor of Business Week in New York City.
Jane has a bachelor’s degree in English from Wellesley College and a master’s degree in history from North Carolina State University. She was married to the late Richard L. Stroup.
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Latta University
The Rev. Morgan L. Latta was the founder and president of Latta University, located in Oberlin Village, which is now part of Raleigh, North Carolina. Born in 1853, he was enslaved on the Cameron Plantation in Durham County. Fifty years later (in 1903) Latta published his autobiography, which tells, among many things, about how he...
The Battle of the Atlantic off the Outer Banks of North Carolina
During the first six months of 1942, 86 merchant ships, primarily American and British, were sunk off the Outer Banks of North Carolina. At least 1200 men died. Many North Carolinians are still unaware of those losses.
Should Southern Military Bases Be Renamed?
On January 1, 2021, Congress enacted (over President Trump’s veto) a defense funding law that calls for renaming military bases that honored Confederate generals. Samuel R. Staley, writing for the Independent Institute, gives an intriguing argument in favor of the renaming. His argument is not that Confederate generals were traitors, as some have claimed (and others...