
This episode is about missing narratives in U.S. history and why adding those narratives into the mainstream is necessary and pressing. Our interviewees are Joseph McGill and Elizabeth Rule. Joseph McGill is a historic interpreter at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in South Carolina and the founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, an initiative that seeks to raise awareness of the hidden stories of enslaved individuals at popular historic and national heritage sites. Elizabeth Rule is assistant professor of critical race, gender and culture studies at the American University in Washington, DC. She is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She studies gendered violence, reproductive justice, and Indigenous governance. For this episode we talked to her about the mobile app her team designed, The Guide to Indigenous D.C., which aims to add the missing Indigenous narrative into the mainstream.