Robert W. Brown

Robert “Robby” Brown has lived in Cleveland County, North Carolina, his entire life. He is married to the former Heather Cook of White Oak, PA and they have twin sons, Thomas and Jack.

He has over twenty five years of history classroom and school administration experience, and Robby has taught classes covering almost every area of social studies in the North Carolina curriculum. During his teaching career Robby helped write North Carolina’s curriculum support document for United States History, and the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for integrating Advanced Placement United States History with state content standards.

Robby wrote two insert chapters on North Carolina history for McGraw-Hill/Glencoe’s middle school American history text The American Journey. Recently, History Press published Robby’s book about the Revolutionary War battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens, Kings Mountain and Cowpens: Our Victory Was Complete.

Since 2003 Robby has written and helped to direct three successful Teaching American History grants for Cleveland County Schools and districts other in western North Carolina. He also has helped over a dozen school districts and consortia around the country to develop successful proposals for Teaching American History grant applications.

In 1994 Robby received his BA in history from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, in 2007 he was awarded an MA in school administration from Gardner-Webb University, and in 2013 he was awarded an MA in History from the University of Nebraska - Kearney. In 2003 Robby earned his National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification in Adolescence and Young Adulthood /Social Studies – History. The North Carolina chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution named Robby Brown its History Teacher of the Year in 2001.