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Reveal Digital collections are built and sustained by the library community. Whether you contribute funding or content, your participation ensures that vital, underrepresented histories remain preserved and freely accessible on JSTOR.
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Interested in supporting the creation of new, openly available collections that document historically excluded voices and movements? Library contributions directly fund digitization, rights clearance, and long-term preservation through Portico.
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Libraries, archives, and cultural organizations of every size—public or private—are invited to nominate and contribute materials to Reveal Digital’s open collections.
Your content expands what scholars and students can discover and study.
See the impact of community collaboration
Reveal Digital’s impact comes to life through the work of our contributors, and the stories uncovered in our collections. Explore how libraries and archives are bringing these materials into classrooms, scholarly research, and public understanding.
Teaching with the American Prison Newspapers collection
Curricular materials, guides, and readings designed to help educators and students teach with the American Prison Newspapers collection, centering incarcerated voices and critical inquiry.
Behind the scenes of Reveal Digital: An open-access primary source collection on JSTOR
Discover the story behind Reveal Digital, an open access primary source collection on JSTOR highlighting underrepresented 20th-century voices of dissent. Learn how library crowdfunding, collaboration, and preservation have built a resource of over 70,000 items.
Monthly-wrap up: Spotlighting pride, prison newspapers, and a painter in June
We hope this blog post finds you with a spare moment to explore something new! June’s releases on JSTOR brought together book-length research, community newspapers, […]
Monthly wrap-up: Maps, movements, and miniature pills in May
May’s additions to JSTOR opened new ways to engage with visual culture, political history, and everyday life.
Digitally archived primary sources are imperative to higher education
What would your classroom look like if students engaged with knowledge as detectives rather than passive readers? The answers lie in digital primary sources. And education depends on how we use them.
Bringing hidden histories to light: An archivist reflects on AI, archives, and the future of digital stewardship
An archivist explores how AI can help surface hidden histories, improve metadata, and support digital stewardship while emphasizing the need for human expertise in shaping archival narratives.
A digital time machine: The power of digital primary sources in higher education
Let’s take a time machine—right at your fingertips—with digital primary sources. Developing digital literacy and primary source analysis skills is essential in higher education, equipping learners not only for academia but also for careers in research, journalism, policy, and beyond.
Primary source literacy is a necessary 21st century skill
Primary sources offer direct, unfiltered access to the voices, images, and documents that shape our understanding of the world and its history. And yet, despite their value, primary source literacy remains an ongoing challenge in higher education.
Monthly wrap-up: Preserving voices, histories, and artistic legacies in February
February brought new archival collections and multimedia highlights to JSTOR. In honor of Black History Month, we also highlighted stories of activism, resilience, and creative expression.
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William A. Maynard, Joe Goncalves, James Forman, jackie earley, issac j. black, sonia sanchez, Jeff Donaldson, et al. “Black Dialogue.” Black Dialogue 4, no. 2 (July 1, 1970). Black American, Part of Independent Voices, Reveal Digital. https://jstor.org/stable/community.28034114.