Unit 3: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
Chapters 4 and 5 in Edwards textbook
14th Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses
Wisconsin v. Yoder, 1972
Schenck v. United States, 1919
McDonald v. Chicago,2010
Roe v. Wade, 1972
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Engel v. Vitale, 1962
Tinker v. Des Moines, 1969
New York Times Co. v. United States, 1971
Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
"Jim Crow 2.0? Why States Consider and Adopt Restrictive Voter Access Policies"-Bentele and O'Brien
Unit 4: American Political Ideologies and Beliefs
Chapter 6 in Edwards textbook
Fiorina, Morris P. Americas Missing Moderates: Hiding in Plain Sight The American Interest 8, no. 4, February 12, 2013
Political Polarization in the American Public Pew Research Center, June 12, 2014
Sanger-Katz, Margot. Your Surgeon is Probably a Republican, Your Psychiatrist Probably a Democrat, The New York Times, October
6, 2016
The Monkey Cage series on political polarization in America The Washington Post
Abramowitz, Alan I., and Morris P, Fiorina. Polarized or Sorted? Just Whats Wrong with Our Politics, Anyway? The American
Interest, March 11, 2013
Pew Research Center A Deep Dive Into Party Affilliation
Unit 5: Political Participation
Chapters 7-10 in Edwards textbook
Desilver, Drew, U.S. trails most developed countries in voter turnout. Pew Research Center, May 15, 2017
Gaslowitz, Lea. How to Spot a Misleading Graph Lea Gaslowitz. TED-Ed video, 4:09
Kiely, Eugene and Lori Robertson. How to Spot Fake News. FactCheck.org, November 18, 2016.
Citizens United v. FEC, 2010
Barthel, Michael and Amy Mitchell. Americans Attitudes About the News Media Deeply Divided Along Partisan Lines. Pew Research
Center, May 10, 2017.
Neale, Thomas H., The Electoral College: How it Works in Contemporary Presidential Elections. The Congressional Research Service,
May 15, 2017.
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