Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner introduces educators to the World War II [...] »
Who was Jane Addams, and how is her article "Why Women Should Vote" still [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
The Bracero Archive’s tutorial shows how to conduct successful interviews. [...] »
Improve your historical analysis skills by learning about different types of [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »