Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
How does the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, DC, depict Grant and [...] »
Teaching in Action
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
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 [...] »
Advertisements have surrounded us for years. How can you interpret them? [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »