Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [...] »
Educators tour the NMAAHC exhibit "Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
Teaching in Action
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Discover historic landscapes with this guide to reading the land produced by [...] »
Integrate these two guides into your curriculum to help students develop [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »