Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Tour Monticello with TAH teachers and learn about the history behind Thomas [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
[...] »Teaching in Action
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Improve your historical analysis skills by learning about different types of [...] »
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »