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Help keep the record intact
The July Archive preserves primary sources from Bangladesh's July 2024 revolution — testimony, photographs, documents, and broadcasts that would otherwise scatter and disappear. It is free to read, free of advertising, and beholden to no political interest. That independence is deliberate, and it is what a donation sustains.
Why it matters
History is most vulnerable in the first years after it happens. Links rot, platforms delete, and accounts of events drift toward whoever tells them loudest. An archive counters that only by staying online — not for a news cycle, but for the researchers, journalists, and students who will need these sources decades from now. Permanence is not a feature; it is a recurring bill.
What donations pay for
Preservation
Original files, web captures, and their replicas are stored redundantly, checksummed, and audited weekly for integrity. Storage is the one cost that only ever grows — an archive that deletes to save money is not an archive.
Access
Serving the site, the search index, and the Historian — the AI interface that lets anyone question the record in English or Bengali — carries real infrastructure and language-model costs with every query.
Stewardship
Every source is reviewed, verified, attributed, and checked for neutrality before publication. Careful curation is slow, human work, and it is what separates a record from a rumor.
What we promise
- Independence. Donations buy infrastructure, never influence. No donor shapes what is preserved, how it is described, or what the Historian answers.
- Neutrality. The archive presents sources from all sides of the events of July 2024 and takes none of them. Support does not change that; it protects it.
- Open access. The archive stays free to read, cite, and query — with due credit to each source — for everyone, always.
How to give
We are setting up formal donation channels. Until then, write to us — for one-time gifts, recurring support, or institutional sponsorship — and we will respond personally.
Not in a position to give? Citing the archive in your work, correcting our metadata, and contributing sources are worth as much as money.