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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 ...
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.
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Ron Tschetter, 17th Director of The Peace Corps (India 1966–1968) [36] Mark Schneider, 15th Director of the Peace Corps, senior vice president of International Crisis Group (El Salvador 1966–1968) [37] Carol Bellamy, 13th Director of the Peace Corps, former head of UNESCO, president of World Learning (Guatemala 1963–1965) [38]
Shriver was the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and founded the Job Corps, Head Start, VISTA, Upward Bound, [2] and other programs as the architect of the 1960s War on Poverty. [3] He was the Democratic Party's nominee for vice president in the 1972 presidential election.
While it has been called "an oral history of America," [10] one group of oral historians have critiqued the project's methodology, specifically the "highly sculpted techniques of the interviews," [11] such as the pre-scripted questions, the 40-minute time limit, and the presence of a StoryCorps staff member in the recording booth. The result of ...
This speech describes John F. Kennedy's original intentions at the time of the announcement of the March 1, 1961 signing of Executive Order 10924 which marked the establishment of the Peace Corps. The transcript is available at the source. This file adds significantly to the following articles: Executive order (United States)