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Looking for new ways to support student research and engagement? 🎓 Explore free teaching resources from JSTOR, including classroom activities on research roadmaps, scholarly questioning, summary writing, primary source analysis, visual literacy, and information literacy. You'll also find tools like Research Basics, JSTOR Workspace, and recorded trainings designed to help students build confidence with academic research.Browse resources created to support #teaching across disciplines and bring scholarship into your classroom at the link in bio. Image: Students in a Classroom. @gvsu Special Collections & University Archives. by @jstor_org

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It's starting to feel like summer at JSTOR HQ, and we're finding inspiration in the Jeanette Siron Pelton Botanical Print Collection from @butleru. 🌻 This hand-colored illustration is part of a collection spanning centuries of botanical publishing. The collection traces the evolution of botanical illustration techniques while documenting the history of plant science, medicine, and visual communication.Explore the collection at the link in bio and see how #artists and scientists worked together to record the natural world. Image: Helenium Indicum Maximum. Jeanette Siron Pelton Botanical Prints, Butler University Special Collections. by @jstor_org

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This #PrideMonth, explore how queer writers helped shape the way we understand music history. 🏳️‍🌈 "Imagining Musical Pasts" (published by @livunipress) looks at queer writings on opera and symphonic music from 1880–1935, following the work of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson. Through coded references, archival gaps, and layered interpretations, the book reveals how histories of sexuality and music have long been intertwined.The book is open access for all to read as part of JSTOR’s Path to Open program.Read the book at the link in bio. by @jstor_org

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@sewanee_univofthesouth is joining JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services' Tier 3 charter program and moving its digital collections to JSTOR Stewardship. The transition will help preserve and expand access to thousands of archival materials, including historic campus photographs, yearbooks, newspapers, and magazines, while contributing to conversations about responsible AI-assisted collections stewardship. Learn more about how institutions are preserving and sharing history for future generations at the link in bio. Image: Library of the University of the South. Courtesy of the William R. Laurie University Archives and Special Collections, University of the South. by @jstor_org

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Some questions deserve more than a quick search. 👀 JPASS provides access to thousands of peer-reviewed journals on JSTOR, helping you explore topics in greater depth with trusted academic #research. Read online without limits, download articles to keep, and discover scholarship across a wide range of disciplines.Learn more at the link in bio. Image: Watanabe Seitei, Beauty Looking at Shinobazu Pond, c. 1906. @metmuseum. by @jstor_org

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When approaching recent historical events, where the scope of destruction and loss can be unfathomable in scale, oral history can bring both connection and immediacy through individual stories of loss, grief, rescue, or triumph that would otherwise disappear in the grand sweep of “Great Men and their Deeds.”Scholar Indira Chowdhury describes the approach:“Oral historians not only interview and engage in conversation with living sources, they also find themselves challenged in a unique way—the historian is transformed into a protagonist in the dialogue. Oral history is perhaps the only field where the sources talk back to the historian, confronting, disputing, disrupting, and sometimes resisting the historian’s understanding of the past. Oral history works with the interviewee as a partner in dialogue and the verbal form historical truth can take is always co-constructed.”The history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic has recently become the subject of numerous oral history projects, where the stories of survivors, caregivers, activists, and health care professionals have been collected and made available online, traditionally published, and edited into documentaries.One such collection, Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic, was begun in 2015 by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art after receiving a grant from The Keith Haring Foundation. The project interviewed forty artists about their lives, their work, and how the AIDS crisis intersected and permeated both.The interviews in the Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic collection cover wide ranges of personal and creative history, ranging from insider gossip and “name-dropping” to theoretical discussions of method and art history. They benefit from interviewers who bring their own experience as artists, art scholars, and historians to the conversation, with questions and insights that make this collection a rich multifaceted history of AIDS, the arts, and activism.Reveal Digital, an initiative “to amplify important, long-overlooked voices of the twentieth century,” has made these histories, and more, available in their developing open access collection HIV, AIDS and the Arts. Read more at the link in our bio. by @jstor_org

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A painting can tell us what is happening. Interpretation helps us ask why. 🎨 In Édouard Manet's "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère," the details invite questions. The barmaid's expression, the crowded room, and the mirror behind her shape how we understand the scene. Viewers have spent generations studying the reflection and looking for clues about perspective and the experience of being seen.The #humanities teach us to slow down and pay attention. Every choice an artist makes can carry meaning, and looking closely opens up new possibilities for understanding a work of art and the world that produced it.How do you read this painting?Image: Édouard Manet. A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. 1882. Courtauld Gallery, London. Via Wikimedia Commons. by @jstor_org

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Happy #PrideMonth! 🌈This June, we’re celebrating LGBTQIA+ history, culture, activism, and scholarship with a @jstor_daily roundup featuring stories on queer literature, the Digital Transgender Archive, LGBTQ+ activism, community care during the AIDS crisis, queer spaces, and much more.Explore the collection and discover free scholarly research along the way. Link in bio. Image: Covers for several alternative gay and lesbian feminist publications via JSTOR's Reveal Digital Independent Voices Collection. by @jstor_org

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The spring semester may be wrapping up but it’s never too late to refresh your multimedia research and teaching skills 🎨Following our User Group meeting at the @ARLIS_NA annual conference earlier this month, we’re excited to share resources to help you optimize your Artstor on JSTOR experience. Check out our latest LibGuide to explore exciting new collections accessibility updates such as ALT text, and more. Link to the LibGuide in bio. Image: Ion Bitzan. Compoziția nr. XVI, 1969. Open: Ion Bitzan. by @jstor_org

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How should #AI tools support learning, research, and human judgment?In this new blog post, Christina Spencer reflects on conversations from the @acm_chi 2026 workshop “Ethics at the Front End,” where researchers, designers, and practitioners explored what responsible AI interface design can look like in practice.The post looks at ideas shaping JSTOR’s AI research tool, including transparency, user agency, thoughtful friction, and the importance of designing systems that support how people think.Read more at the link in bio. by @jstor_org

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How are academic #libraries evaluating new approaches to ebook acquisition, and what can early experiences tell us about their long-term value?Watch a recent @library_journal webinar on demand to hear librarians, publishers, and JSTOR discuss how Publisher Collections are being used in practice across academic institutions. Speakers from universities and academic presses share perspectives on collection priorities, budgeting, workflows, access models, and community-informed approaches to scholarly ebooks.Register to watch the recording at the link in comments. by @jstor_org

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On the morning of Saturday, May 12, 1979, Āyandigān, one of Iran’s longest running, largest, and most independent newspapers, was missing from many of the country’s newsstands. Earlier in the week, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who had taken power three months earlier, had denounced the publication as “depraved,” and throughout the previous night, state-run radio had repeatedly criticized it as “counterrevolutionary.”That day’s edition of Āyandigān carried a single story, a plea to the new government to embrace the free press which, it wrote, had been a tenet of the Iranian Revolution. “It is impossible to continue until the government makes a clear stand for freedom of press and speech,” the newspaper declared. The rest of its pages were blank.Hundreds marched through the streets of downtown Tehran to protest the paper’s challenge to the ayatollah. In Shiraz, in southern Iran, its offices were occupied by armed men. And in the western Iranian city of Dezful, the names of people who bought the paper were recorded. Still, the New York Times reported, supporters handed out stacks of newspapers in the streets, swelling Āyandigān’s usual circulation of 300,000 to 450,000.With knowledge of the next half century of Iranian history, it can be a surprise to realize that, amid this societal unrest, the first few months after the overthrow of the shah were a time of optimism in the country. The news media flourished in a tentative “Spring of Freedom,” and news consumers had access to a cacophony of voices from across the political and religious spectrum. By one count, the country had 100 newspapers at the time of the revolution and more than 700 in the year after. This forgotten moment is captured by Nashriyah, a vast collection of digitized Iranian newspapers created by the University of Manchester and shared via JSTOR.Read more at the link in our bio. by @jstor_org

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