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History of Social Thought Links

History of Social Thought Syllabus

General Resources and Syllabi from elsewhere:

Syllabus Lytle Givens: http://www.uu.edu/personal/lgivens/refer6.htm

Philosophy: A History of Ideas: http://www.saltdal.vgs.no/filoeng.htm

The American Prospect (on-line liberal journal): http://www.prospect.org/

Sociosite: Sociologists Dead and Very Much Alive: http://www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/TOPICS/Sociologists.html

Demographic Resources: http://www.uu.edu/library/demogrph.htm

Sociological Research Online Journal: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/

WWW Virtual Library: Sociology: http://www.mcmaster.ca/socscidocs/w3virtsoclib/index.htm

American Sociological Association http://www.asanet.org/

The SocioWeb http://www.socioweb.com/~markbl/socioweb/

Larry Ridener's Dead Sociologists' Society: http://raven.jmu.edu/~ridenelr/DSS/DEADSOC.HTML

Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~sssi/

American Rhetorical Movement (with links): http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/COM340.html

Marymount: Development of Social Thought Syllabus http://phoenix.marymount.edu/~jdewitth/soc303/

Social Theorists on the web: http://phoenix.marymount.edu/~jdewitth/soc303/303links.html

Sociology: Internet Resources (from Univ. of Delaware): http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/soc/internet.htm

Social Thought at LeMoyne: http://www.lemoyne.edu/academic_affairs/departments/sociology_anthropology/soc303_s.html

Equality and Social Justice Course: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/kahane/ (Seems like an especially good source!)

Social Justice, Action, and Policy: http://www.uwf.edu/socwork/sow4990.htm?ti2Xdw=www.uwf.edu/~socwork/sow4990.htm

Social Thought course http://www.public.usit.net/dow1/hist417.html
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Social Thought/UColorado http://www.colorado.edu/Sociology/SOCY3011old/about.html

University of Virginia etexts in English: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eng-on.html

Women Philosophers of the Modern Era: http://faculty.msmc.edu/lindeman/dg1.htm

Women Philosophers: Time Line: http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000ws/timelist.shtml

Schomberg Digital Texts of Nineteenth Century Black Women: http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs/@Generic__CollectionView;hf=0

A Celebration of Women Writers: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

Great Books onlline Bartleby: http://www.bartleby.com/

Julian Dierkes' Sociology Links at Princeton: http://www.princeton.edu/~sociolog/links.html

Ed Stephan's Sociology Timeline: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/timeline.html

Ancient World Cultures: http://eawc.evansville.edu/nepage.htm

Internet Modern History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

Guide to Research in History and Etext sources: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook01.html

Historical Text Archives: http://www.geocities.com/djmabry/index.html

Making of America (Includes about 8500 digital texts from 18th/19th c. America): http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/index.html

Exploring Early American (18th C. information and documents): http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/index.html

U. S. Historical Texts Arranged chronologically: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9061/USA/chron.html

Hypertext on American History: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/

U. S. Historical Documents/Native Americans: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/statutes/native/namenu.htm

Documents for the Study of American History: http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html

American Slave Narratives Online: The Crossroads Project: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html

Library of Congress Women's Suffrage Documents (1848-1921): http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html

National Women's History Project (1848-Present): http://www.legacy98.org/index.html

American Indian Resources: http://jupiter.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/naindex.html

Hispanic America: http://www.neta.com/~1stbooks/index.html

Indian Peace Commission's Report (1868): http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/peace.htm

Native American Historical Documents: http://www.wintercount.org/archives/texts/

Native American Historical Speeches: http://www.councilfire.com/historical/

Native American Councilfire: http://www.councilfire.com/

Native Links by Tribe: http://www.kaizengroup.com/NH%20Pages/Native_Links_by_Tribe.htm

International Social History: http://www.iisg.nl/index.html

Maya Links: http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maya/maya.html

Maya Studies: http://www.mayastudies.org/

Making American Literature: History Resources: http://www.amlit.org/Resources.html

Chinese Immigration and Chinese in the United States: Records in the Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration:
http://www.nara.gov/regional/findaids/chirip.html

Japanese Internment Order (1942): http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/curaaw/aawdoc33.html

Interpreting the Irish Famine 1848-1850 (A Collection of Documents): http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~eas5e/Irish/Famine.html

Individual Writers:

Incan Creation Myth set down in 15th C. based on older tradition: http://www.humanities.ccny.cuny.edu/history/reader/inca.htm

Mayan Myth of Creation set down in the 17th C. Popol Vuh: http://gomexico.about.com/travel/gomexico/library/weekly/aa991030.htm

Tibetan Book of the Dead (written down 8th c. AD).0: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/dead/foreword.html
and http://reluctant-messenger.com/tibetan-book-of-the-dead.htm
Sacred Texts Archive: http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

Enuma Elish (Babylonian Story of Creation from around 3000 BCE) as recorded in translation in 1902: http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/enuma.htm

Native American sacred texts: http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/index.htm

Petitions from early African Americans:
Felix's petition to Massachusetts Gov. Thomas Hutchinson, 1773 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h22t.html
Letter from Peter Bestes, Sambo Freeman, Felix Holbrook, and Chester Joie to Boston, apr. 20, 1773: http://www.lib/virginia/edu/etext/readex/42416.html
Petition of Paul Cuffe and "Several Poor Negros and Molattors of Dartmouth, Mass to the General Court", Mar. 14, 1780
Petition to U. S. Congress from Jacob Nicholson, Jupiter Nicholson, Job Albert, and Thomas Patchet (possibly written by Rev. Absalom Jones)
Petition of "A Great Number of Blacks detained in a State of Slavery" to House of Rep. of Massachusetts Bay Jan. 13, 1777
http;//www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h32t.html
Petition of Belinda to Massachusetts Legislature
Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett) 1742-1849 Brom & Bett v. AshleySuccessful petition for emancipation of self and daughter 1780
Cato's letter and petition to Pennsylvania Assembly: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h73.html
Prince Hall and the "Boston Plan" 1787: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h59.html
3/5 Provision of U. S. Constitution 1787: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h59.html

Fugitive Slave Laws: http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/340fugitive.html
Dred Scott Decision: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1851-1875/dredscott/dredxx.htm
Constitution of the Confederate States (1861): http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/csa.constitution.html
Plessy Vs. Ferguson (1896) segregation legalized: http://www.wfu.edu/%7Ezulick/341/plessy.html
Sedition Act (1918): http://www.wfu.edu/%7Ezulick/341/sedition1918.html
Civil Rights Act (1964): http://www.wfu.edu/%7Ezulick/341/civilrightsact1964.html
Suffrage Amendments to the Constitution: http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/340suffrage.html

Aboriginal Sites (Australia): http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/AborigPages/History.html

Read: Chinese Exclusion Act 1882: Also available at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/chinex.htm
Read: Letter re: removal of Chinese from Tacoma, Washington (1885): Read: Angel Island Poetry 1910-1940:

Therigatha: Verses of the Elder Buddhist Nuns (India, 6th c bce): http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/thig/index.htm

Sacred texts of Australia: http://www.sacred-texts.com/aus/index.htm

Paleolithic Cave Paintings: http://www.sacred-texts.com/nel/index.htm

Legends of the Maui (Polynesian/Hawaiian) (as recorded in 1910): http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/maui.htm

Mythology of the Maori of New Zealand (as recorded in 1854): http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/grey.htm

Kalevala (Finnish National Epic) 1st appeared in print early 19th c.: http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/kaleva.html
Summary of Kalevala's contents: http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/kaleva7.html

Abigail and John Adams (correspondence: "Remember the Ladies" 1791): http://www.gate.net/~liz/suffrage/abigail.htm
http://planetx.bloomu.edu/~aholton/121readings_html/adams_html/index.html
Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren 1791: http://longman.awl.com/garraty/primarysource_4_5.htm
Abigail Adams to John Adams re: slavery Sep. 22, 1774: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h23t.html

John Quincy Adams: Gag Rule on Anti-Slavery Petitions (1837): http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/gagrule1.html
John Quincy Adams: Argument to the Supreme Court on the Amistad escaped slaves (1841): http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/library/court/supreme/1841.jqa.argument.1.html

Jane Addams: Twenty Years at Hull-House 1910: http://raven.jmu.edu/~ridenelr/DSS/Addams/2hhtoc.html
or http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/addams/hullhouse/hullhouse.html;

Richard Allen and Absalom Jones A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, During the Late Awful Calamity in
Philadelphia in the Year 1793 and a Refutation of Some Censures, Thrown upon them in some late Publications.http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h456.html

Angel Island Poetry 1910-1940: http://www.cetel.org/angel_poetry.html

Susan B. Anthony: "Woman's Right to Vote" (1873) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1873anthony.html

Aristotle Politics (350 B. C.) http://www.infomotions.com/etexts/philosophy/400BC-301BC/aristotle-politics-89.txt

Mary Astell: Some Reflections Upon Marriage, 1700: http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/astell2.html

Francis Bacon: from A New Atlantis (1627) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1627bacon-atlantis.html

Benjamin Banneker: Letter to Thomas Jefferson (with his reply) 1792: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/readex/24073.html
On Banneker + these letters and his almanac http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p84.html

Chief Black Hawk, Autobiography (1833): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/blackhawk.html
"Surrender Speech" (1832) http://www.civnet.org/resoures/teach/basic/part3/12.htm

Simon de Bolivar: Address to the Congress of Angostura (1819): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1819bolivar.html

John Calhoun: Speech on the Reception of the Antislavery Petitions (1837): http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/calhoun2.html

Margaret Cavendish
from "A New Description of the Blazing World" http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/wyrick/debclass/blaze.htm
"Atomic Poems" http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/cgi-bin/sgml2html/wwrp.pl?act=contents&f=%2Fdata%2Fwomen_writers%2Fdata%2Fatomic.sgm&offset=2224&len=58801&endpos=58885&elmt=DIV1&t=Introduction-%20Introduction%20to%20The%20Life%20and%20Works%20of%20Margaret%20%28Lucas%29%20Cavendish
About Margaret Cavendish: http://womenwriters.about.com/arts/womenwriters/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinn.net%2F%7Esunshine%2Fmarch99%2Fcavndsh.html
Margaret Cavendish Society: http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/mcs/links.html
On Cavendish:
http://womenwriters.about.com/arts/womenwriters/cs/cavendish/index.htm
Lee Tillman Partington "Introduction" to The Life and Work of Margaret Cavendish:
http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/cgi-bin/sgml2html/wwrp.pl?act=text&f=%2Fdata%2Fwomen_writers%2Fdata%2Fatomic.sgm&offset=2224&len=58801&prior=0&next=1&endpos=58885&elmt=DIV1&t=Introduction-%20Introduction%20to%20The%20Life%20and%20Works%20of%20Margaret%20%28Lucas%29%20Cavendish

Cesar Chavez (Resources) http://clnet.ucr.edu/research/chavez/resources/
Viva Cesar Chavez: http://www.sfsu.edu/%7Ececipp/cesar_chavez/chavezhome.htm

Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia 1831 http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/cherokee.htm

Chief Seattle Speech 1845: http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/chiefsea.html
Chief Seattle's Surrender Speech: http://civnet.org/resoures/teach/basic/part3/12.htm
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882: http://www.cetel.org/1882_exclusion.html and http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/chinex.htm
Letter re: removal of Chinese from Tacoma (1885): http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/curaaw/aawdoc28.html

August Comte page http://www.d.umn.edu/~jhamlin1/comte.html

Condorcet (Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (1743? 1794) The Future Progress of the Human Mind (1794): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/condorcet-progress.html
"On the Admission of Women to the Rights to Citizenship" (1790) http://www.worc.ac.uk/chic/suffrage/document/pleawome.htm#title

Confucius: The Great Learning 500 B. C.: http://www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/conf2.htm

Charles Horton Cooley Page: http://raven.jmu.edu/~ridenelr/DSS/INDEX.HTML#cooley

Anna Julia Cooper: (Cooper and Harriet Taylor): http://www.usask.ca/wgst/courses/310taylr.htm

William Dawes: "Have We Failed With the Indian?" (1899): http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=DawHave.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=all
The Indian Territory (1900): http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=DawIndi.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=all

Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sorjuana/

Eugene Debs: Statement to the Court when tried for violating Sedition Act (1918): http://www.wfu.edu/%7Ezulick/341/Debs1918.html

Frederick Douglas texts:
Article on 1848 Seneca Falls Convention published in Douglas' 28 July 1848 North Star: http://womhist.binghamton.edu/malesupp/doc4.htm
from The Narrative of Frederick Douglas (1845) http://www.infomotions.com/etexts/literature/american/1800-1899/douglas-narrative-567.txt
Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage (1867) http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/suff.html

http://www.infomotions.com/alex/cgi-bin/search.pl?database=Alex%20Catalogue%20of%20Electronic%20Texts&templatetype=ALL&stemming=exact&view=authors&query=author-name%3DDouglass
Douglas: We Have Decided to Stay (Speech to Anti-Slavery Society 1848): http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/Douglass1848.html

W. E. B. Dubois: Souls of Black Folk: http://www.bartleby.com/114/1.html

Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far): http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/eaton.html
and http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~yoonmeec/todir/ssfone.html
and http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/engl462/far.htm
and http://saxakali.com/youth/newpage11.htm
A Chinese Ishmael (1899) etext: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed-new?id=FarChin&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed
A Love Story from the Rice fields of China (1911): http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed-new?id=FarLove&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed
The Bird of Love (1910): http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed-new?id=FarBird&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed
Selection from Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of a Eurasian: http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~yoonmeec/todir/leavtwo.html
An Autumn Fan (1910): http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed-new?id=FarAutu&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed
Chan Yen Hen, Chinese Student (1912): http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed-new?id=FarChan&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed

Maria Eugenia Echenique: The Emancipation of Women (1876) (Argentine feminist): http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/echenique.html

Olaudah Equiano Page: http://www.atomicage.com/equiano/
http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/equiano.htm

Olaudah Equiano, selections from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa(1789) http://www.princeton.edu/~howarth/304.Projects/Erera/Pages/Narrative.htm

John W. Foster "The Chinese Boycott" (Atlantic Monthly) (1906): http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/china/foster.htm

Benjamin Franklin texts: http://www.infomotions.com/alex/cgi-bin/search.pl?database=Alex%20Catalogue%20of%20Electronic%20Texts&templatetype=ALL&stemming=exact&view=authors&query=author-name%3DFranklin
On the Constitution (1787): http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/340franklin.html

Margaret Fuller Home Page: http://www.arh.eku.edu/Eng/KOPACZ/fuller.htm

Matilda Joslyn Gage Woman, Church and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages with Reminiscences of the Matriarchate. 1893
http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/gage1.html
Website: http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/gage/features/4moms.html

Geronimo: His Own Story: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/geronimo/geronixx.htm

Emma Goldman: "Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure": http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/aando/prisons.html
Emma Goldman Papers: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/project.html

Olympe de Gouges: The Rights of Women 1791:
http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/gouges.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791degouge1.html

Angelina E. Grimke: Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836): http://history.furman.edu/~benson/docs/grimke2.htm

Angelina E. Grimke: Address at Pennsylvania Hall (1838): http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/grimke.html
Sites on Angelina and Sarah Grimke: Roots of Individual Feminism: http://www.zetetics.com/mac/fem1.htm
Teaching History OnLine: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASgrimke.htm
Women of the Hall: http://www.greatwomen.org/grimke.htm

Jupiter Hammon: "An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York" (1787): http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/readex/20400.html

Hammurabi: Code of Hammurabi ca. 1760 B. C. E. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.html

Patrick Henry:; Against the Constitution 1788: http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/henry.html

Thomas Hobbes Leviathan (1651) http://www.infomotions.com/etexts/philosophy/1600-1699/hobbes-leviathan-66.txt

Hortensia, Speech, 42 B. C. http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/wlgr/wlgr-publiclife176.html

David Hume texts: http://www.infomotions.com/alex/cgi-bin/search.pl?database=Alex%20Catalogue%20of%20Electronic%20Texts&templatetype=ALL&stemming=exact&view=authors&query=author-name%3DHume

Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ABT6782

Thomas Jefferson texts:
Thomas Jefferson's Draft of the Declaration of Independence: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/independence/doitj.htm
Final Copy of the Declaration of Independence (1776): http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/independence/doi.htm
Jefferson on Slavery: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/slavery.htm
Extract from Jefferson's letter to Jean Nicholas Demeunier (1786): http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/Jefferson.html
Drafting the Declaration of Independence Exhibit: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/declara1.html
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/cgi-bin/search.pl?database=Alex%20Catalogue%20of%20Electronic%20Texts&templatetype=ALL&stemming=exact&view=authors&query=author-name%3DJefferson
Jefferson Letter to John Holmes (1820): http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/Jefferson1820.html

Young Joseph: An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs (1879): http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JosIndi.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=all

Elizabeth Keckley: Behind the Scenes: http://digilib.nypl.org:80/dynaweb/digs/wwm9713/@Generic__BookView

Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963): http://www.wfu.edu/%7Ezulick/341/birmingham.html
I Have a Dream (1863): http://www.wfu.edu/%7Ezulick/341/king.html

Emma Lazarus: "The New Colossus" (Statue of Liberty Poem) (1883): http://www.civnet.org/resoures/teach/basic/part10/63.ht

Winona LaDuke (Anishinabeg) Beijing 95 Plenary Address: "The Indigenous Women's Network Our Future, Our Responsibility:" http://www.igc.apc.org/beijing/plenary/laduke.html

Abraham Lincoln texts: http://www.infomotions.com/alex/cgi-bin/search.pl?database=Alex%20Catalogue%20of%20Electronic%20Texts&templatetype=ALL&stemming=exact&view=authors&query=author-name%3DLincoln
"A House Divided" (1858): http://www.civnet.org/resoures/teach/basic/part4/22.htm
House Divided: http://web-cr05.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2934t.html
"Emancipation Proclamation" (1862): http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/emancipa.htm
"Second Inaugural Address" (1865): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1865lincoln-aug2.html
Lincoln Douglas Debates (1858): http://www.illinoiscivilwar.org/debates.html
First Inaugural (1861): http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/340linc1.html

John Locke texts: http://www.infomotions.com/alex/cgi-bin/search.pl?database=Alex%20Catalogue%20of%20Electronic%20Texts&templatetype=ALL&stemming=exact&view=authors&query=author-name%3DLocke

Rosa Luxembourg: http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxembur/works/1915/04.htm

Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince (1515) http://www.infomotions.com/etexts/philosophy/1500-1599/machiavelli-prince-123.txt

James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay: The Federalist Papers: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed.htm

Thomas Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population 1798: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/malthus/malthus.0.html

Harriet Martineau: Society in America 1837: http://raven.jmu.edu/~ridenelr/DSS/Martineau/siatoc.html

Marx and Engels page: http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/marx/

Marxism page: http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/marx.html

John Stuart Mill The Subjection of Women (1869) http://www.infomotions.com/etexts/philosophy/1800-1899/mill-subjection-217.txt

John Stuart Mill On Liberty (1859) http://www.infomotions.com/etexts/philosophy/1800-1899/mill-on-215.txt

Michel Montaigne: Essays 1575 http://www.infomotions.com/etexts/philosophy/1500-1599/montaigne-essays-220.txt

Lewis Henry Morgan, "The Destiny of the Indian" from League of the Hodenosaunee or Iroquois (1851) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1851morgan.html

Mrs. Mossell The Work of Afro-American Women ("Our Afro-American Representatives at the World's Fair"): http://digilib.nypl.org:80/dynaweb/digs/wwm9729/@Generic__BookTextView/2266;pt=2242#X

Mrs. Mossell The Work of Afro-American Women: "Our Afro-American Representatives at the World's Fair": (1908)

Lucretia Mott: The Law of Progress (1848): http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/mott.html

Thomas Paine The Rights of Man 1792: http://www.infomotions.com/etexts/philosophy/1700-1799/paine-rights-399.txt

Thomas Paine, "An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex" (1775): http://www.thomas-paine.com/tpnha/archive/occ.html

Thomas Paine, Other Works, http://www.thomas-paine.com/tpnha/archive.html

Christina de Pizan: http://www.millersv.edu/~english/homepage/duncan/medfem/pizanhp.html

Wendell Phillips: "The Murder of Lovejoy" Speech at Faneuil Hall 1837: http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/lovejoy.html

Plato etexts: http://www.infomotions.com/alex/cgi-bin/search.pl?database=Alex+Catalogue+of+Electronic+Texts&caseful=off&caseful=off&templatetype=ALL&stemming=on&view=authors&query=Plato
Plato: The Republic: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/PlaRepu.html
Plato: The Allegory of the Cave (from Bk 7) and The Myth of ER from Book X of the Republic http://orion.ramapo.edu/~kfowler/platocaveander.html

History of Mary Prince, 1831: http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs/wwm97262/@Generic__BookView

Simon Po-Ka-Gon: "An Indian on the Problems of His Race" (1895) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgibin/browse-mixed?id=PokIndi&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed
Frank Terry, Supt. of the Indian Boarding School for Crow Indians, Montana: "Naming the Indians" (1897): http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgibin/browse-mixed?id=TerName&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/eng-parsed
Simon Po-Ka-Gon "Naming the Indians" (1897) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgibin/browse-mixed?id=PokName&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed
Simon Po-Ka-Gon: Read: "An Indian on the Problems of His Race" (1895); "Naming the Indians" (1897)

Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890): http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html

William Ripley: "Races in the United States" (on European immigration) (Atlantic Monthly) (1908): http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/immigr/rip.htm

Octavia Rogers from The House of Bondage: Negro Government:
http://digilib.nypl.org:80/dynaweb/digs/wwm972/@Generic__BookTextView/1837;pt=452#X

Eleanor Roosevelt: read a sampling from the documents http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/authors.htm#Roosevelt, Eleanor;

Jean-Jaques Rousseau, fromThe Social Contract or Principles of Political Right (1762) http://www.constitution.org/jjr/socon.htm
Extended excerpts from Social Contract: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rousseau-contract2.html
Rousseau: A Dissertation on the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind (1775): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rousseau-inequality1-2.html

Margaret Sanger: http://www.bartleby.com/1013/
Margaret Sanger, from Woman and the New Race (1920) "Cries of Despair and Society's Problems"http://www.all.org/resource/woman.htm (scroll down to Chap. VI);
excerpt from Autobiography (1938): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sanger1.html
Margaret Sanger, "To Mothers: Our Duty" (1911); from Woman and the New Race (1920) "Ch. VI: Cries of Despair and Society's Problems" and "No Healthy Race Without Birth Control" (1921). Note: Information about Sanger and links to all her documents available on the web available from the Margaret Sanger Papers Project at NYU.

Chief Seattle Speech 1845

Samuel Sewall: The Selling of Joseph 1701: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h301.html

Adam Smith An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776):
Chap. 1: and On Colonies: and The Cost of Empire: and The Principle of the Mercantile System:
(Entire text available at: http://www.infomotions.com/etexts/literature/american/1700-1799/smith-inquiry-161.txt )

The Song Celestial or Baghavad Gita (400 B. C. )

August Spies: Speech on the Haymarket Riots (1886) delivered prior to being hanged (1888): http://www.wfu.edu/%7Ezulick/341/spies.html

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Read:Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848; Another copy
Read the following selections from Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815- 1897 (1898) Chap. IX: "The First Woman's Rights Convention" (1848) | Chap. 12 My First Speech Before a Legislature" (1860 ) Note: Entire text of Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815- 1897 (1898) is available.

Aung Sun Suu Kyi (Myanmar) (Winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Peace): Address to Beijing 95 conference (1995);

Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton): "A Chinese Ishmael" (1899) and from Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of a Eurasian

Frank Terry, Supt. of the Indian Boarding School for Crow Indians, Montana: Read: "Naming the Indians" (1897):

Henry David Thoreau: "Civil Disobedience" (1849); and "Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854)

Nat Turner: Confessions of Nat Turner: http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/natturner.html

Ida B. Well-Barnett "The Reason Why the Colored American is Not in the Columbian Exposition (1893): Chap. 3: "Convict Lease System": Chap. 4: "Lynch Law"

Young Joseph: "An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs" (1879)

George Wallace, Scottish Jurist on slavery from U. S. Chronicle 1784: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/readex/44623.html

Phillis Wheatley "To the Honorable Earl of Dartmouth 1773" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h20.html
Letter to Samson Occam (Mohegan) 1765: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h19.html

Mary Wollstonecraft, selections from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman(1792) | Introduction | | Ch. 2: "The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character | "Ch. 9: Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society" |
Note entire text of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is available.

Zitkala-Sa: Read:School Days of an Indian Girl (1900): or at

Some Useful Links: (More links -- including on individual social theorists available at
| Philosophy: A History of Ideas | Women Philosophers of the Modern Era | Women Philosophers: Time Line: |

| Larry Ridener's Dead Sociologists' Society | Sociosite: Sociologists Dead and Very Much Alive | WWW Virtual Library: Sociology |

| The SocioWeb | Social Theorists on the web | Sociology: Internet Resources (from Univ. of Delaware) |

| Julian Dierkes' Sociology Links at Princeton | Ed Stephan's Sociology Timeline |

| University of Virginia etexts in English | Great Books online Bartleby | The Etext Archives |

| Ancient World Cultures | Internet Modern History Sourcebook | International Social History |

| Documents for the Study of American History | Hypertext on American History |

| Guide to Research in History and Etext sources | Historical Text Archives | U. S. Historical Texts Arranged chronologically |

| Making American Literature: History Resources | Native American Historical Speeches | Native American Council Fire |

| U. S. Historical Documents/Native Americans | American Indian Resources |

| American Slave Narratives Online: The Crossroads Project | Hispanic America | Documenting the American South |

| Interpreting the Irish Famine 1848-1850 (A Collection of Documents) |

| Chinese Immigration and Chinese in the United States: Records in the Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration