Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How does the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, DC, depict Grant and [...] »
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Quantitative data, although seemingly daunting and impersonal, can help you [...] »
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »