Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
Teaching in Action
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
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How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Quantitative data, although seemingly daunting and impersonal, can help you [...] »
The Bracero Archive’s tutorial shows how to conduct successful interviews. [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »