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- A Towering Task (February 1, 1961 draft)
- Wiggins, Warren
- Full-text of the February 1, 1961 draft of Warren Wiggins' essay 'The Towering Task.' This essay discusses the early history of the concept of the Peace Corps and outlines Wiggins' suggestions for implementing Peace Corps at a starting level of...
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Peace Corps Volunteer Application, 1968
- Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection
- Full text of a 1968 Peace Corps application.
- Brochures
- Peace Corps Application, 1993
- Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection
- Full text of a 1993 Peace Corps application.
- Brochures
- Volunteer at training camp in Kenya
- Training; ACTION
- More and more of ACTION’s Peace Corps Volunteer training is shifting from the U.S. to the host-countries. The photo shows a coastal training site in Mombasa for trainees who will be serving in Kenya.
- Agency Photos
- Volunteers at train site for serving in Kenya
- training; ACTION
- More and more of ACTION’s Peace Corps Volunteer training is shifting from the U.S. to the host-countries. The photo shows a coastal training site in Mombasa for trainees who will be serving in Kenya.
- Agency Photos
- Volunteer train for Kenya
- Training; ACTION
- More and more of ACTION’s Peace Corps Volunteer training is shifting from the U.S. to the host-countries. The photo shows a coastal training site in Mombasa for trainees who will be serving in Kenya.
- Agency Photos
- Remarks by Sargent Shriver at Peace Corps' fourth anniversary assembly, September 22, 1965
- Shriver, Sargent; Volunteerism; Vietnam war
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's remarks at Peace Corps' fourth anniversary assembly, State Department, September 22, 1965.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Speech by Sargent Shriver before the Commonwealth Club of California, October 11, 1963
- Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Business development
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's speech before the Commonwealth Club of California, October 11, 1963.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Address by Sargent Shriver at Albert Einstein School of Medicine, November 15, 1964
- Shriver, Sargent; Doctors; Nurses;
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's address at Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York City, November 15, 1964.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Address by Sargent Shriver to the Experiment in International Living, December 7, 1965
- Shriver, Sargent; Cross-cultural transition
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's address to the Dinner of the Experiment in International Living, New York, December 7, 1965.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Annual Roosevelt memorial day address delivered by Sargent Shriver, May 30, 1963
- Shriver, Sargent; Cross-cultural transition
- Full text of the Annual Roosevelt memorial day address delivered by Sargent Shriver, May 30, 1963.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Peace Corps National Conference of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
- Returned Volunteer Services
- 25th Anniversary of: The Peace Corps National Conference of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers & Staff September 20, 1986. Washington, D.C.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Transcript of background press and radio news briefing, March 6, 1961
- Press and media; Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection; Vietnam war; Volunteer compensation;
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's briefing to the press held on March 6, 1961. Shriver introduced members of the original Peace Corps task force, and fielded topics on a range of questions about the initial plans for how the Peace Corps would operate.
- Press Briefings
- The food won't be the same...but neither will you
- Posters; ACTION
- Peace Corps poster from 1976, when Peace Corps was part of ACTION.
- Posters and Graphics
- We Still Do
- Peace Corps Directors; Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection
- Full text of Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's December 1967 speech delivered at Georgetown University's Hall of Nations.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Round One
- Peace Corps Directors; Vaughn, Jack
- Full text of Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's May 4, 1966 speech entitled 'Round One' given at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Vaughn discusses his impressions of Peace Corps after three years as the agency's Director, and...
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Letters from nurses in the Peace Corps
- Nurses; Medicine; Doctors; Disease; Health; Traditional medicine; Teachers and students; Work; Universities
- A collection of letters written by Peace Corps Volunteers serving as community health nurses in Malaysia, Niger, Afghanistan, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), Turkey, Peru, Bolivia, India and Togo. No date is given, but the publication appears to...
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Peace Corps Times (Issue 1, 2010)
- Newsletters--2010s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Issue 1, 2010)
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Issue 1, 2013)
- Newsletters--2010s
- Full text of Peace Corps Times (Issue 1, 2013)
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Issue 3, 2012)
- Newsletters--2010s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Issue 3, 2012)
- Newsletters