Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing [...] »
Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »
Jefferson, surprised by the Louisiana Purchase? Maybe not. Historian Leah [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
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 [...] »
Integrate these two guides into your curriculum to help students develop [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »