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Check Out Elizabeth Weiser's New Book!

Rhetorics of Repair in Museums of Conscience has just been published by Routledge. It looks at museums across the United States that tell difficult stories often excluded from our national history—stories of slavery, Indigenous dispossession, racial violence, wartime incarceration, and labor struggles. I explore how these museums help their communities confront painful histories without deepening division. The book identifies four qualities that make this possible: truth-sharing, healing, restorative justice, and hope, all of which I see as keys to overcoming our national polarization. Although the book is written for a secular academic audience, I see these qualities as springing directly from the Episcopal Christian values that have shaped me: the joyful hope of communal reflection, truth combined with compassion, and action for redemptive justice.  

Elizabeth Weiser is an Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor at The Ohio State University