Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing [...] »
Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »
TAH teachers get an introduction to Monticello as Thomas Jefferson's ' [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
Historian Allida Black analyzes FDR's April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat. What [...] »
Teaching in Action
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
Using Primary Sources
The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
Discover historic landscapes with this guide to reading the land produced by [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
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 [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »