A few things have come across my desk recently that may interest you:

• A committee appointed by Princeton University released a report on whether to rename buildings on campus named after Woodrow Wilson. (They said no.)
• A story in the New York Times considers the effect of politics on the AP U.S. History course.
• I wrote something about that fake Harriet Tubman quote for my website that was picked up by Historians Against Slavery.
• A new book by historians Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter Onuf considers the contested legacy of Thomas Jefferson, especially in the age of the Broadway hit musical Hamilton.
• A critic of the new Broadway hit Hamilton argues that the musical “silences” black history, despite its multiracial cast.

Any one of those things might be good fodder for one of the optional assignments you could do if you want more opportunities to demonstrate mastery of the rubric.