Taught by Literature is a collaborative project honoring Black author and activist Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s lifelong commitment to education. Black women intellectuals have always contributed to public debates, published their ideas, and created movements for social change—but their work is not as well-known as it should be. Taught by Literature celebrates Dunbar-Nelson’s legacy by recentering Black women writers, beginning with Dunbar-Nelson herself and extending to other Black women from the Harlem Renaissance and earlier. This web resource makes accessible a digital edition of The 'Steenth Street Stories, an extraordinary unpublished short story collection written by Alice Dunbar-Nelson based on her work at the White Rose Mission in the 1890s.