Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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What meanings does the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, have? [...] »
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
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High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
Find the National Archive's worksheets for analyzing a variety of primary [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »