3. Updates and Latest Additions
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- Explore the partisan lean of states and Congressional districts in Topic 3.5 on Political Parties in American politics. Partisan lean is "the average margin of difference between how a state or district votes and how the country votes overall" (quoted from "How Red or Blue is Your State?" FiveThirtyEight, May 27, 2021).
- Added a short section on the Supreme Court's Shadow Docket to Topic 3.3: The Federal Judicial Branch, the Supreme Court, and State Courts
- The release of 2020 Census data provides material for Congressional redistricting. You can follow what redistricting looks like in every state with an interactive from the FiveThirtyEight blog and learn more in Topic 3.5 of this book.
- New material added to Topic 6.1 on government responses to natural and human-caused disasters.
- Link to Topic 7.5 to learn about the "Disinformation Dozen" (a group of 12 individuals responsible for 65% of the shares of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media) along with approaches for dealing with fake and false news.
- Find a link to a Washington Post tracker on President Biden's environmental policies and the history of the Yosemite Land Grant of 1864 in a section dealing with debates between federal and state governments over environment and energy policies
- New material on the Filibuster and the U.S. Senate
- Expanded material on Wilmington, Tulsa and Other Race Massacres in U.S. history in a section about those who deny and denied democratic ideals
- Special Activity Box on Juneteenth: Holiday for Freedom added to Topic 5.3 on Constitutional Issues Leading to the Civil War.
- Material on racial and gender bias in the tax system added to Topic 6.9, including The Whiteness of Wealth, a new book by Dorothy A. Brown.
- Added to Topic 6.10, a TED Video about cooperative organizations in Finland and its implications for democratic decision-making in worker-owned companies and local governments in the U.S.
- Added Map of Seats by States in U.S. House of Representatives based on the 2020 Census.
- Background on Lucy Terry Prince, who wrote the earliest known poem by a Black writer in North America.
- Connect here for ongoing updates on the January 6, 2021 Insurrection at the Capitol
- Added material about the myth of voter fraud to Topic 4.5
- New information and learning activities related to Photo Tampering and Deepfakes
- Updated information on the question Should 16- and 17-Year-Olds Be Allowed to Vote?
- Brief summary of Jeffrey Toobin's new book, True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump added to material on Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential Election and the subsequent Mueller Report.
- Voting from Ancient Athens to Modern America, a teacher-designed learning plan, added to Topic 4, Standard 5 on Citizen Participation in the Electoral Process.