Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Teaching in Action
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Virginia Tech’s short video shows how to analyze primary sources and put [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »