November 29, 2002

What Oral Historians Really Do

To the Editor:

The Chronicle's article "Revisiting the Brink" (October 18) and the subsequent online Colloquy highlight the innovative work that James G. Blight and his collaborators have done through a series of conferences to re-examine past international crises. They convene surviving officials from both sides and confront them with declassified documents (many of which the participants have not seen before) that might contradict their memories and past statements. Scholars in the

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