Honest Patriots

Donald Shriver argues that recognition of morally negative events in American history is essential to the health of our society. Yet our civic identity largely rests on denials, forgetfulness, and inattention to the memories of neighbors whose ancestors suffered great injustices at the hands of some dominant majority. Shriver contends that repentance for these injustices must find a place in our political culture.

Donald W. Shriver, Jr. is President of the Faculty and William E. Dodge Professor of Applied Christianity, Emeritus at Union Theological Seminary. He is the author of An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics (OUP, 1995).

Introduction
1: Germany Remembers
2: South Africa in the Wake of Remembered Evil
3: Oldest unpaid Debt: To African Americans
4: Even Older Unpaid Debt: To Native Americans
5: Being Human While Being American: Agenda for the American Future