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Affiliate groups may be geographic (e.g., Chicago Area Peace Corps Association); based on the country of Peace Corps service (e.g., Friends of Guatemala); associated with workplaces (e.g., RPCVs at USAID); driven by social action (e.g., Peace Corps Community for Refugees); or defined by affinity (e.g., the Peace Corps Oral History Project ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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.