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Reveal Digital
Reveal Digital develops primary source collections from underrepresented 20th-century voices of dissent, funded and published by libraries, museums, and historical societies. Its open access collections include:
Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement
This open-access collection unearths untold stories of civil rights activism in Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian American/Pacific Islander communities, highlighting everyday citizens’ contributions and expanding historical narratives.
Black Periodicals: From the Great Migration through Black Power
This collection showcases Black periodicals from the mid-20th century, representing diverse political, cultural, and literary movements across the U.S., Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean, documenting the Black freedom struggle.
American Prison Newspapers, 1800s-present: Voices from the Inside
This collection brings together over 700 prison newspapers from U.S. prisons, providing an authentic look at life inside prisons. It highlights how incarcerated journalists balanced administration oversight and authentic reporting.
Student Activism
This collection documents the history of student organizing in the U.S., linking past and present movements. It provides access to primary sources that explore how student activists shaped American higher education and continue to enact change.
HIV, AIDS & the Arts
This collection documents the artistic responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis, preserving visual, literary, and performing arts created by marginalized artists, including trans*, BIPOC, and African voices, capturing the cultural fight against the epidemic.
Independent Voices
Featuring alternative press publications from the 1960s to the 1980s, this collection highlights the radical voices of feminists, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, LGBT communities, and more, showcasing the era’s dissent and cultural movements.
Documenting White Supremacy and its Opponents in the 1920s
This collection features KKK publications alongside key anti-Klan voices from Black American, Catholic, and Jewish communities, providing insights into organized white nationalism and its resistance in the 1920s.
Shared collections
Libraries publish their special collections–called shared collections–on JSTOR to make rich and unique primary sources accessible to everyone. Explore the diverse collections featured here:
- Discover Black history with JSTOR collections (blog post)
- 23 freely accessible Black history collections (blog post)
- 21 open collections for Women’s History Month (blog post)
Engage students with global multimedia content from Artstor on JSTOR
Artstor is a collection of over two million rights-cleared images from around the world. Students can examine wide-ranging historical and contemporary material that supports and enriches study across disciplines.
- Teaching Hispanic Heritage Month with Artstor (blog post)
- Open images from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (blog post)
- Drawing outside the lines: Black self-taught artists (blog post)
- Women behind the lens: photographers in the field (blog post)
- Artstor’s new era on JSTOR: Community needs inform our exciting new content direction (blog post)
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Image credits: 1. Marvin Garson, Jim Eilers, Paul Glusman, Huntley Barad, Marjorie Heins, Glibert Johnson, Jeanie Darlington, Catherine, and Max Goldcrab. San Francisco Good Times 2, no. 18 (May 7, 1969).