Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Who was Jane Addams, and how is her article "Why Women Should Vote" still [...] »
What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
![Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer. . . ], 1957, Flickr Commons](/sites/default/files/styles/splash_thumb_images/public/Reading-and-Thinking.jpg?itok=f7GCc3Xk "Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer reading a book at his house : Pelican Key, Florida], December 1957, State Library and Archives of Florida, Flickr Commons")
Watch this flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
Teaching in Action
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Every town has a scattering of historical markers and statues. Discover what [...] »
Find the National Archive's worksheets for analyzing a variety of primary [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »