eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 2018-10-26 6 10 1379 1387 10.12691/education-6-10-7 EDUCATION20186107 article Nguyen Van Ninh nguyenvanninh27@gmail.com 1 Le Thi Huyen 1 2 Faculty of History, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam The use of original materials to teach history topics is one of the optimal methods that contribute to the renovation of teaching objectives, content, methods and testing and assessment. The original materials not only play a vital role in revitalizing the vivid past, but also create learning excitement, thinking orientation, and developing students' competencies. To achieve these results, in teaching history topics, teachers should use original materials effectively to get started, raise issues, motivate students' participation, and orient students' learning; provide students with opportunities to "discover", explain, and debate about historical events and phenomena; and at the same time, use original materials to reinforce, review, assign assignments, and assess students' cognitive performance. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/6/10/7/education-6-10-7.pdf original materials topics-based history teaching historical topic history teaching high school