The role of place in teaching history is described in the context of “field trips” in which students usually look around without any structured learning process of history. Historic places have historical evidences from which students can make historical inferences to how the past people in this place lived, thought, and solved their problems. In doing so, students can develop historical thinking and expand their historical understanding. Furthermore, they can learn how to solve past and present problems creatively.
This article attempts to define what creativity is in the subject of history, and how it is related to historical imagination, and suggests how creativity can be developed in students by engaging them in an inquiry into and trips to historic places.