Article • Best Practices for History Lessons and History Discovery Events

History Discovery Events Gallery

Two people doing archaeology in a forest
Two youth taking part in the Urban Archeology Corps program in Virginia.
These History Discovery Events offer inspiration and practical advice on how to put ideas and principles in action as you design your own location- and community-specific programs.

Each example includes information about the specific program as well as how the program meets History Lesson Principles. By looking through the gallery, you will see all the different ways that History Discovery Events can connect people to place and history in meaningful and engaged ways.

For more information on these History Discovery Events, or to share information about your successful event, contact Lu Ann Jones.

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  • Students sort artifacts in an archeology lab

    Linking Hispanic Heritage Through Archeology provides opportunities for Latino youth in Arizona to dig deeply into the relationship between Hispanic heritage and NPS cultural resources.

  • Richmond National Battlefield Park

    Urban Archeology Corps in Richmond VA

    • Locations: Richmond National Battlefield Park
    Two people excavating in a forest

    The Urban Archeology Corps led students as they unearthed the history of a Richmond, Virginia community descended from enslaved people freed in the late 18th century.

  • Blue Ridge Parkway

    Driving Through Time

    • Locations: Blue Ridge Parkway
    Painting of a roadway winding through hills.

    “Driving Through Time” is an innovative website built in collaboration with academic partners that highlights multiple perspectives on the complicated, and often contentious, history of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

  • Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument

    Groundswell Mural Project Ellis Island

    • Locations: Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument
    A mural of a boy sharing his heart.

    Ellis Island National Monument reaches new audiences of immigrant youth and encourages them to think like a historian with the Groundswell mural project

  • Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail

    Honoring Tribal Legacies

    • Locations: Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
    Painting of a river

    Honoring Tribal Legacies: An Epic Journey of Healing (HTL) is a virtual handbook providing educators with resources to teach a more collective history of Lewis and Clark’s Corp of Discovery and the nation’s journey west.

  • Screen capture of the Illinois Freedom Project webpage

    The Illinois Freedom Project blends online learning with site visits, public discussion, and multi-media to teach the history of slavery and explore the interconnected narratives that came to define it.

  • Lake Mead National Recreation Area

    Lake Mead Lesson Plan Writing Retreat

    • Locations: Lake Mead National Recreation Area
    A group of people listen to a talk about plants

    The Lesson Plan Writing Retreat invites educators to come together during the summer and to create culturally inclusive lesson plans through seminars and research.

  • Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site

    Little Rock Central High School Memory Project

    • Locations: Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site
    A group of people stands outside Little Rock Central High holding a Memory Project banner.

    "The Memory Project," a collaboration between Central High School and Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, invites and challenges students to collect the personal stories of family and neighbors who lived through civil rights struggles in the twentieth century.

  • Natchez National Historical Park

    Natchez History Minutes

    • Locations: Natchez National Historical Park
    Title card for the Natchez History Minute Series

    The Natchez History Minutes series bring together park historians, students, elected officials and other community members to share stories of how people from all walks of life shape a city.

  • A group of native Alaskans

    Project Jukebox worked with the digital branch of the University of Alaska Fairbank’s Oral History Program, a frequent collaborator with the National Park Service, to digitize hundreds of oral history interviews.

Part of a series of articles titled Best Practices for History Lessons and History Discovery Events.

Last updated: September 13, 2017