February 23, 2007

Historians Against the War

To the Editor:

We wish to amplify your article that described the resolution on civil liberties in wartime adopted at the American Historical Association's annual meeting in January ("Historians' Annual Meeting: Controversy and a Glut of Jobs," The Chronicle, January 19).

The resolution strongly condemns the exclusion of foreign scholars, the reclassification of previously unclassified documents, the obstruction of access to prewar intelligence, and other intrusions on free