Seminar
in U.S. PoliticsPoli 304, Spring 2004
Phone: 201-200-3259 Email: fmoran@njcu.edu
Seminar
in U.S. Politics
Poli 304, Spring 2004
Phone: 201-200-3259
Email:
fmoran@njcu.edu
Exams
Liberty cannot be preserved
without a general knowledge among the
people." -- John Adams Our seminar in American
politics for the spring 20024semester will focus on
American political thought. We will trace the
evolution and development of American political
ideas from the colonial period, through the
founding, to the civil war and reconstruction,
industrialization, and post-World War II
developments. We will be using primary source
documents -- both in hard print and on the internet
-- for this excursion. As this is a seminar,
students are responsible for a significant amount
of the teaching and learning that will take place.
General resource
for texts and documents in American
thought: Some background
info on perhaps the leading American intellectual
from the colonial period: Library
of Congress Exhibit on the
Declaration Pennsylvania
Constitution of 1776 Madison's
Notes of the Constitutional
Convention Here's some fun
links, you'll need some audio software though: Ralph
Waldo Emerson Orestes
Brownson Society Elizabeth
Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
Papers 1848
Seneca Falls
Convention Slave
Diaries Frederick
Douglass African
American Mosaic The
Underground
Railroad The
Civil War Dred
Scott Decision Press
Reaction to the Dred Scott Decision This link includes
editorials -- from southern and northern newspapers
-- reacting to the ruling. A
Miner's Life This link includes
diaries and news accounts of life in the mines.
Great stuff! WEB
Dubois The first link here
takes you to a page that has reproductions of FBI
surveillance materials of WEB Dubois that were
obtained via the Freedom of Information
Act. FDR's
"Fireside Chats" Martin
Luther King Papers
Project
(includes audio/video files of King's
speeches). Malcolm
X speeches.
Site includes some audio samples. You can also get
more background info, links, and audio samples from
and about Malcom at this
site. Students
for a Democratic
Society SDS
- the later years. Feminist
Theory
back to
top
Audio
Clips
The "audio clips" site includes fragments of the
Watergate tapes
Presidential
Speeches:
This site has audio samples going back to Grover
Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison!
This site has a nice selection of Emerson's poetry
and essays.
Has a pretty complete collection of Brownson's
works, including copies of the literary journal he
published.
This site has an excellent selection of papers from
these two feminist pioneers.
This site includes a copy of the Seneca Falls
Convention Declaration of Sentiments as well as
biographies of the leading women of the
movement.
An amazing collection of writing written by slaves
offering a first hand account of the
ordeal.
A useful site containing some of Douglass's
writings.
The Library of Congress on-line exhibit of the
African-American experience; includes text,
graphics, and timelines.
A great site covering the history of the
underground railroad, narratives, and
maps.
The site offers pretty thorough coverage of the
civil war.
This link will take you to the case. When you get
to it, just scroll down about a half inch or so and
cut to the part where Tawney begins to address the
question as to whether or not the framers
understood blacks to be included in either the "all
men are created equal" clause of the Declaration of
the "We the People" clause of the Constitution. The
paragraph begins "The question is simply this..."
Try to plow through as much of it as you
can.
Many of the links on this page, unfortunately, seem
to have died. However, the one on child labor is
great and some of the ones on the top about mining
still work. FOIA
Government Docs
Works
by Dubois
FDR
Presidential Library
This site includes other writings of the anti-war
movement and other 1960 student protest
groups.
Towards the end of its run, SDS was dominated by a
Maoist influenced faction. The above site takes you
to a Maoist group that still exists and celebrates
the SDS era. Click on the "home" button off the
page I sent you to to get to their version of the
world.
A pretty good bibliographical resource and some
helpful links.
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