JSTOR offers millions of primary sources across four collections, supporting research and teaching in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Global Plants

Consisting of nearly 3 million objects, Global Plants is the largest community-contributed database in which herbaria share their plant type specimens and experts determine and update plant names.The collection also includes partner-contributed reference works and primary sources, and serves an essential resource for research and teaching in botany, ecology, and conservation studies.

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19th Century British Pamphlets

19th Century British Pamphlets is a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain. Created by Research Libraries UK (RLUK) with funding from the JISC Digitisation Programme, the collection is comprised of more than 26,000 important pamphlets held in research libraries in the United Kingdom.

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Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa

The collection consists of more than 190,000 pages of documents and images, including periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, oral histories, and speeches.

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World Heritage Sites: Africa

The collection links visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites. It includes more than 57,000 objects, including photographs, 3D models, GIS data, site plans, aerial and satellite photography, images of rock art, excavation reports, manuscripts, traveler’s accounts, historical and antiquarian maps, books, articles, and other scholarly research.

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A painting depicting several red apples encased in a clear plastic tray with a small yellow and white label on top. The plastic wrap creates reflective highlights and distortions on the apples, adding a sense of depth and texture. The apples appear fresh, vibrant, and are tightly packed together, emphasizing the mass-produced packaging commonly found in grocery stores. The artwork captures both the natural beauty of the apples and the artificial presentation of commercial packaging.

Teaching with primary sources

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