Facing Our Collective Wounds With Generous Hope
Historian William Sturkey Reflects on Confronting Our Dark Past, and Moving Forward
I’ve felt the power of reconciliation wash over me. I felt it at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery and at the War Remnants Museum in Saigon. I felt it when a family of Black descendants approached me at a book talk, with tears in their eyes, to hug and thank me for telling their family’s story in my book Hattiesburg. It is a feeling that inspires wholeness, human connectedness, historical justice, and internal peace.
And so I was eager—and tremendously honored—when Zócalo Public Square asked me to moderate the events in …
