Ford's Theatre: Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Ford’s Theatre Society’s Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address and follow-up activities, in this example of on-site TAH professional development.
Four Reads: Learning to Read Primary Documents
Teach your students to read like a historian with this guided four-step reading process for primary documents.
Historical Thinking Interactive Poster!
So how do we top the popularity of our historical thinking poster? We make a good thing even better!
The Research Paper: Developing Historical Questions
Research papers are not an archaic form of assessment. Learn how to help your students with the research paper composition process.
Historic Stories, Fictional Accounts: Achieving Multiperspectivity
Nonfiction texts are great sources for learning about historical events and figures. However, do fictional accounts also have a place in the history classroom?
Sifting for Sources
Curious to discover how to introduce young learners to primary and secondary sources? Click here now!
Stop and Source!
Students get more out of historical photographs when they take the time to explore who took them, where, and why.
Brain-based Research
What’s in a brain? Quite a lot actually! Discover how brain research relates to the history classroom.
The Connection Between Literacy and History
Even if you’re not an English teacher, you’re still a literacy teacher.
APPARTS Strategy: Origins and Implementation
Engrain the APPARTS strategy into young students, and they’ll be well on their way to AP-level performance.
Primary and Secondary Sources through Video
Can video help me teach about primary and secondary sources?
What is Historical Thinking?
You can use a number of frameworks to help you understand and teach historical thinking. Teachinghistory.org’s Daisy Martin starts you off.
Teaching the History of Teaching History
So you know you love teaching history, but do you know the history behind teaching history?
Contingency
What is contingency? What does it have to do with K-12 historical thinking?
Welcome to Our Redesign, and Thank You
New content, new graphic interface, and streamlined search and save tools get you where you need to go.
Bringing Primary Sources into the Classroom
H.S.I: Historical Themes Investigation guides students and teachers through document analysis.
Multiperspectivity: What Is It, and Why Use It?
Simply pondering “multiperspectivity” (a European term for “multiple perspectives”) introduces the concept.
Performance Assessments Requiring Historical Analysis
When you want your students to think, rather than just remember.
Teaching about Columbus Day: Mythbusters
Will the REAL Cristoforo Colombo please stand up.
Bookmark This! Gilder Lehrman's History Now
It’s all about the American Revolution.
Online Professional Development through the Library of Congress
Library of Congress professional development for teachers emphasizes a self-paced look at resources and methodologies.
Especially for Teachers: Annenberg Media's Online U.S. History Textbook
Here’s a digital textbook for teachers packed with resources.
National History Club: Having Fun AND Doing History
The 375 chapters of the National History Club make history come alive.
John Brown, Harpers Ferry, Students, History and Technology
Middle school students interpret history at Harpers Ferry.
Remember the Ladies—But Not Just in March
Women’s history should be integral to the total narrative of American history.
Register for Your Virtual Seat: Smithsonian Education Online Lincoln Conference
If you missed this two-day online event, watch the videos from the Abraham Lincoln: a Smithsonian Education Online Conference on the website.
Thinking Like a Historian: Rethinking History Instruction
Are students ever too young to start learning to think like historians?
Seeing (and Engaging in) Historical Thinking: A Tutorial
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing historical sources.
Journal of the Association for History and Computing
The current online issue of Journal of the Association for History and Computing (April 2008) highlights the use of digitized primary source documents in the classroom and in the archives.
National History Day: Exhibiting Excellence
How does National History Day influence teaching and learning history?