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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

Broaden perspectives with open access ebooks on JSTOR

JSTOR offers more than 10,000 high-quality academic books that are freely available thanks to the partnership and contributions of publishers, libraries, and foundations. Learn more about how these initiatives have advanced bibliodiversity:

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.

Discover the scholarly context behind today’s headlines with JSTOR Daily

Our online magazine provides context for current events with scholarship found on JSTOR, as well as teaching and learning resources on disciplines across the curriculum. Search JSTOR Daily for topics related to your courses, or view the selected resources below to get started:

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).