Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
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High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
In this series of exercises, students are presented with Native American [...] »
Textbook illustrations are often overlooked as historical evidence.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »