Foreign affairs oral history program

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It has known security flaws and may not display all features of this and other websites. Learn how to update your browser. Thank you for opening my eyes to a whole other resource! Collectively, these oral histories span over 80 years.

About 60 new interviews are added annually. The series also contains some significant oral histories dealing with American diplomacy, which were provided by universities and presidential libraries. The oral history collection has become one of the largest in the country on any subject and the most significant collection on foreign affairs.

In order to honor the diversity of the Foreign Service, we have also compiled a legacy collection of the oral histories of African American ambassadors. Skip to main content. Submit Search. They focus on the situation in country X at a particular time: What American interests were in country X, how the embassy or consulate worked and dealt with the country, what the interviewed officer did, and what factors bore on his or her work. S ome of the matters dealt with in detail are: The divisions over our policy towards Greece and Cyprus during most of the post war period.

The frustrations in dealing with the Middle East. Views of India and Pakistan from the respective embassies. The Korean peninsula problem. The difficulties of relations with France. Working in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Opening posts in the newly independent African states. Panama Canal negotiations. The Gulf War as seen from the perspective of the U. Evacuating Mogadiscio, Somalia and Monrovia, Liberia.

Nuclear and disarmament negotiations. The experiences of some of the participants in the Camp David accords, as well as the views of American ambassadors from the Arab capitals.