Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Analyzing a source requires context for a more complete understanding.
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What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Find the National Archive's worksheets for analyzing a variety of primary [...] »
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »