Hidden Literacies brings together leading scholars of historical literacy to investigate the surprising, often neglected roles reading and writing have played in the lives of marginalized Americans—from Indigenous and enslaved people to prisoners and young children.  By presenting high-resolution images of archival texts and pairing them with expert commentary, Hidden Literacies aims to make these writers and texts—which too often lie below the radar of American literature curricula—more available and accessible to teachers and researchers. This podcast includes interviews with contributors to Hidden Literacies and explores how they discovered these fascinating examples of literacy, how they interpret them, and why they matter.

Explore Hidden Literacies at https://www.hiddenliteracies.org

Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16pZw0llfV0E5qGHuj392N00Lv-JIGj37/view?usp=sharing

Sound Credits:

“Crescents” by Ketsa (Free Music Archive)