Name
Save Your Place in History: The Oral History Project, Museum of the Peace Corps Experience, and the Peace Corps Community Archives at American University
Date & Time
Friday, September 24, 2021, 8:15 PM - 9:00 PM
Speakers
Violet Esipila - RPCV Ukraine
Avriel Glass - Smithsonian American Art Museum
Leslie Nellis - Acting Director of Archives & Special Collections, American University in Washington, D.C.
Candice Wiggum Ph.D. - RPCV North Macedonia
Patricia Wand - Museum of the Peace Corps Experience
Avriel Glass - Smithsonian American Art Museum
Leslie Nellis - Acting Director of Archives & Special Collections, American University in Washington, D.C.
Candice Wiggum Ph.D. - RPCV North Macedonia
Patricia Wand - Museum of the Peace Corps Experience
Description
Your Peace Corps experiences – captured in oral histories, connected to objects you brought home, or recorded in archival documents – can become valuable Peace Corps records used by students and researchers, and enjoyed by anyone. Learn how to be interviewed for the Peace Corps Oral History Archive, to donate an object to Museum of the Peace Corps Experience, or deposit your photos, letters, training papers, and videos in the Peace Corps Community Archive. Become part of the rich web of global connections and individual experiences that form the story of the Peace Corps. Step forward; save your place in history.