The objective of the research to learn the skills of historical thinking contained in a history book second row literary secondary, adopted search the descriptive approach, the researcher used list tool thinking skills to historical composed of,5 the skills of Chairperson, and 26 subskill distributed on five skills of the Chairperson. That included a sample search all the contents of the Student book of the substance of the history of the second grade literary secondary issued by the Ministry of Education in the Syrian Arab Republic, entitled to: (the history of the modern world and contemporary).