Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner visits the original Franklin D. [...] »
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Teaching in Action
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Integrate these two guides into your curriculum to help students develop [...] »
National History Day identifies secondary sources along with [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »