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In the mid-1970s, at conferences of global educators in the Midwest, a group of returned Peace Corps volunteers began meeting to discuss their service experiences.They adopted a Peace Corps objective that President John F. Kennedy stated in 1961: "Come home and teach your neighbors about the communities where you served."
An article in Geotimes (a trade publication) in 1963, reviewed the program, with a follow-up history of Peace Corps geoscientists appearing in that publication in 2004. [42] During the Nixon Administration the Peace Corps included foresters, computer scientists, and small business advisers among its volunteers.
The Nunn Center contains over 19,000 oral history interviews featuring a variety of individuals and projects. Significant oral history projects include: the Family Farm Project, the Colonel Arthur L. Kelly Veterans Oral History Project, University of Kentucky history, African American history in Kentucky, [4] Kentucky writers, Kentucky's medical history, the history of professional baseball ...
Carol Spahn, 21st Director of The Peace Corps (Romania 1994–1996) [30] Jody Olsen, 20th Director of the Peace Corps (Tunisia 1966–1968) [31] [32] Carrie Hessler-Radelet, 19th Director of the Peace Corps, (Western Samoa 1981–1984) [33] [34] Aaron S. Williams, 18th Director of the Peace Corps, (Dominican Republic, 1967–1970) [35]
The Ulster Museum has unveiled the new project on its website as part of its Troubles And Beyond programme. 1974 brought back to life through powerful Northern Ireland oral history project Skip to ...
The Peace Corps program was established by Executive Order 10924, which was issued by President John F. Kennedy on March 1, 1961. The program was legislatively authorized by Congress on September 21, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Pub.L. 87–293). Between 1961 and 2013, over 215,000 Americans joined the Peace Corps. [1]
Mar. 16—The Manhattan Project in New Mexico was front and center in 1945. In nanoseconds, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan at the end of World War II changed the nature of warfare ...
The United States will resume a long-suspended Peace Corps program in the North Pacific island of Palau as the Biden administration continues moves to counter growing Chinese influence in the region.