Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What meanings does the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, have? [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
Analyzing a source requires context for a more complete understanding.
[...] »Teaching in Action
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
Virginia Tech’s short video shows how to analyze primary sources and put [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »