Gordon Schochet
Department of Political
Note
that this is an unusual webpage; it contains no kitty cats, no c.v., no
self-promotion, no pictures, not even an account of my beloved Baltimore
Orioles or an attack on the New York Yankees—just information, heavy-handed
irony (some might call it hostility), and links to a few useful, interesting,
and occasionally amusing websites.
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Here are links to materials for the undergraduate courses
I am offering in the fall of 2007.
For
790: 101, “The Nature of Politics,“ click
here
For
790: 371, “The Western Political Tradition (1): From Moses to Movable Type”
(but d.b.a. “From Plato to Machiavelli”), click here
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Spring, 2008
790:
372, “The Western Tradition (2): From Machiavelli to Marx and Mill” (but d.b.a.
as “Hobbes to Mill”) click here
More to come – watch this spot (but I’m bored
right now and don’t know how to insert one of those cheesy “under construction”
things that people put on their webpages when they’ve
lost their designers – besides, this one is d.i.y.)
And here is a link to a New York Times article that will explain
why I may not answer or even acknowledge your email. Read it before writing;
it’s not hostility, you will see, just the prospect of fatigue. As a service to
your other instructors, you should probably read it now
And so long as you’re here, however, so it shouldn’t be a total
waste, as my grandmother would have said, these links from the web pages for my
undergraduate courses might prove useful:
Click
here for the Declaration
of Independence via Avalon
Click
here for the French Declaration
of the Rights of Man and the State via Avalon
For
the entire Avalon web,
site, click here – a vast collection of historical materials on politics
and government, from the ancients to the 21st century (and regularly
updated)
The Constitution Society is another
excellent site for documents pertaining to American politics
As is “From Revolution
to Reconstruction” at the
For
the National
Constitutional Center, click here.
Click here For
US Supreme Court opinions via FindLaw in HTML
format.
Click
here For the Supreme Court itself.
Click here to access the text of Martin Luther
King's "I Have a
Dream" speech delivered at the 1963 March on
And here
for the 17 minute video of the speech (a little dicey, but it’s all here).
Click here to access Martin Luther King, "Letter from
Birmingham Jail."
Click for the “Statement
by the Alabama Clergymen” to which King was responding
Click here to access the Seneca Falls
Declaration (but, alas, without the list of signatories).
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