San Diego State University
History professor at San Diego State University and author of the book All You Need Is Love: The Peace Corps and Spirit of the 1960s
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Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
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FROM Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
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Peace Corps: Then and Now The Peace Corps, which has been sending Americans overseas to do aid work for 50 years, is struggling to recruit new volunteers. Today, it announced it’s changing its application process to try to drum up more interest. We look at the organization’s evolution over the years and what its shrinking popularity says about our culture.
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