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StocktonAfterClass

Ron Stockton was a professor of political science at the University of Michigan-Dearborn for 48 years. His specialty was non-western politics and political change. He taught classes on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Religion and Politics, the Politics of Revolution, Non-Western politics, and American politics. He also taught in the Honors Program, focusing upon foundational readings from the 18th and 19th centuries. He has an interest in religion and politics and in the role of religio-ethnic groups in the political system. The listener can anticipate talks on Arab-Americans, Jews, African-Americans, the Scots-Irish, and Evangelicals. He has lectured and written on American politics, public opinion, and voting behavior and on the role of religious organizations and ideologies in the political system. There will be occasional discussions of books and films that address serious issues. And he has lectured and published and even taught a class on gravestones, especially those of different ethnic and religious groups such as Muslims, African-Americans, Jews, and Native Americans. The goal of the podcast series is to provide analysis and commentary by a political scientist to explain and make accessible political, historical, and cultural developments in the United States and around the world, and to give the listener analytical tools to understand those developments. It is also to entertain the listener.

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RIP Jimmy Carter. Citizen, Patriot, Peacemaker, Visionary, Christian.

December 30, 2024 • Ronald Stockton

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Jane and I were on our way from Mobile (where her family had originated) to Andersonville, the terrible Confederate prison camp where both of us had lost relatives. She realized that we would be very close to Plains. Not only that, Jimmy would be teaching Sunday School that day. We went to that service and watched a Baptist Deacon teach a lesson on the diseased woman that Jesus cured. There were a couple of hundred people in the audience but our teacher used a traditional discussion format and managed to connect with each of us.

When Jimmy was sent home from the hospital a year or so ago, and turned over to the care of hospice nurses, I wrote this tribute.

Over the years Jane and I have read or listened to most of Jimmy's books. The one that stands out is his childhood memoir, An Hour Before Daylight. Do yourself a favor and get an audio version of that book. It is unique.