What We’ve Learned (about Recovery) through the Just Teach One Project

Abstract

Duncan Faherty and Ed White describe the history and evolution of their project, Just Teach One, which recovers neglected early American texts and provides free, downloadable editions of out-of-print materials for classroom use. The project also provides an on-site blog for teachers to share resources and discuss their methods for teaching the recovered texts on the site. The chapter analyzes the data about the sixty-five faculty participants who took part in JTO across its first five semesters and imagines the potential evolution of the project, including the development of a new platform to encourage students from multiple institutions to collaborate as they read each JTO text.