JFK’s speech turns 64 years old on Monday. Yet despite its age, and the radically different times in which we live, it reads ...

Harvard University has been home to some of the most influential minds in history, with its alumni making a lasting impact ...

What David Baur did was join the very first group of U.S. Peace Corps volunteers to be deployed overseas. “I started out as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa,” Baur recalls. At age 22 he went ...

As Shanya McWhinney recently turned 26, she celebrated under the starry skies of South Africa. Just being there was a gift in ...

As president in 1961, John F. Kennedy asked Hoover to be the honorary chairman of the National Advisory Council for his global humanitarian group, the Peace Corps, although the 86-year-old former ...

Among the provisions of that act was the creation of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) as a domestic Peace Corps in which volunteers in state or local agencies were set up to perform duties ...

While in jeans, he played baseball, assessed his peanut farm and lugged watermelons — activities captured by the watchful eye of the press corps ... landmark Camp David peace accords.

His postpresidential greatness is what will be remembered. But he was a shrewder politician than people realize.