Experimental archaeology is a vibrant and fascinating field that offers great opportunities for hands-on student learning in history. Although it is typically taught by archaeologists and anthropologists, it is certainly accessible and easily adapted to history courses. In addition to teaching "Introduction to Experimental Archaeology" as an upper-level course, the authors borrowed aspects of the methodology to enrich 100-level survey courses and have supervised students using experimental archaeology techniques in honors projects and capstone seminars. It is no coincidence that a medievalist and an ethnohistorian find this approach useful. Both authors study people and time periods (medieval peasants and Indigenous peoples of North America) for which written records are scarce and often lacking in sympathy with the people they describe. The authors' fields, therefore, are interdisciplinary. Through the authors' use of archaeology, they discovered experimental archaeology and quickly saw its potential for both research and teaching. In this article, the authors suggest seven reasons for incorporating more hands-on experimental archaeological projects into history courses at all undergraduate levels.