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Title: Interview with Tony Longi, Returned Sierra Leone Peace Corps Volunteer
Date: 2023-04-07
Creator: Roman, Michael
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: In this video recording, returned Peace Corps Volunteer Tony Longi talks about his service in Sierra Leone III from 1962-1964. Mr. Longi worked in rural community development.
Subject: Oral histories; Peace Corps (U.S.) -- Sierra Leone
Country: Sierra Leone
Local Identifier: PCCA_Longi_0001
Type: interviews; motion pictures (visual works); oral histories (literary genre)
Collection: Peace Corps Community Archive
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Peace Corps Afghanistan - Volunteers 1971-1973 slideshow from "Portland Convocation - A Moment in Time Reunion - July 26-29, 2012 - Special Thanks to Jim Poplack, Jim Hicks, Fritz Laurenovics"
Date: 1971-1973
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Slide slow created by returned Peace Corps Volunteer Ron Dizon, who served in Afghanistan from 1971 to 1973. This slide show contains personal photographs of Peace Corps volunteers in the Either Or Otter Corps, which they took during their service in Afghanistan from 1971 to 1973. These volunteers attended the Moment in Time Reunion, which took place from July 26th through July 29th, 2012 in Portland, Oregon.
Subject: Volunteers -- Afghanistan -- Anecdotes
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0103
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Exhibition Photographs - Afghanistan 2012 slideshow from "Portland Convocation - A Moment in Time Reunion - July 26-29, 2012 – Special Thanks to Jim Poplack, Jim Hicks, Fritz Laurenovics"
Date: 2012
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Slide slow created by returned Peace Corps Volunteer Ron Dizon, who served in Afghanistan from 1971 to 1973. This slide show displays personal photographs of Peace Corps volunteers from the Either Or Otter Corps, which was sent to Afghanistan in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken after the volunteers completed their Peace Corps service in 1973. Many of the photographs show the volunteers spending time together at the 2012 Moment in Time Reunion in Portland, Oregon.
Subject: Volunteers -- Afghanistan -- Anecdotes
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0102
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: President Neil Kerwin interview from Mary Kennard’s Higher Education Law course, 06 February 2017
Date: 2017-02-06
Creator: Kennard, Mary E.; Kerwin, C. M. (Cornelius M.)
Description: Mary Kennard, former vice president and general counsel of the American University, interviewed President Neil Kerwin during her course Higher Education Law at the Washington College of Law. The interview was conducted in the months leading up to President Kerwin’s retirement and covers his academic career, reflections on his tenure as President of American University, as well as touching on several legal topics relevant to the course. This video is an edited excerpt of the class recording.
Subject: College presidents -- Interviews; Education, Higher; Universities and colleges
Local Identifier: Kerwin_WCL_Higher_Education_Law_2017Feb06
Type: video recordings
Collection: American University Historic Films and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:70686
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Afghanistan Black & White: Slideshow
Date: 1971-1973
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Slide show of black and white photograhs taken in Afghanistan.
Subject: Volunteers -- Afghanistan; Humanitarian assistance -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0009
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: The Foreigners
Date: [date of publication unknown]
Creator: McGrew, Skeets; Harris, Mark
Publisher: King Screen Productions
Description: Follows a group of American Peace Corps volunteers in Colombia in their daily work, and in their reflections on their role.; Credits: Producer and writer, Mark Harris. Director, Skeets McGrew.
Subject: Peace Corps (U.S.) -- Colombia; Economic history; Colombia -- Economic conditions; Colombia -- Social conditions
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: Media_Collection_16093
Type: documentary film
Collection: Friends of Colombia Archive
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3192
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Stalemate Kampuchea
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Stucker, Darren Michael
Publisher: American University (Washington, D.C.). School of Communication
Description: "Film focuses on the situation of the one million Cambodian refugees. Interviews with government officials from several countries, with refugees, and with camp administrators explore the questions of whether the refugee problem is chiefly due to the Pol Pot era or to the Vietnamese occupation that followed it and how the occupation can be ended without restoring the control of the Pol Pot faction."
Subject: Cambodian-Vietnamese Conflict, 1977-1991 -- Refugees; Communism -- Cambodia; Refugees -- Cambodia; Refugees -- Thailand; Vietnamese -- Cambodia; Cambodia -- History -- 1975-; Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1975-1979
Subject -- Personal Name: Nguyẽ̂n, Thanh Hò̂ng
Local Identifier: au_soc_stalematekampuchea
Type: Documentary films; Motion pictures
Collection: Academic Unit Collections
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:94989
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Hike to the Falls
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Fretz, Phil
Description: In this video, Phil Fretz describes his time working as a Peace Corps Volunteer at a vocational school in Kenema, Sierra Leone, and the cultural lessons he learned from his students and fellow volunteers. He tells a story of a hike in the woods that he took in the Kono District of Sierra Leone while traveling one weekend.
Subject: Autobiography; Peace Corps -- Sierra Leone; Storytelling
Country: Sierra Leone
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fretz_0001
Type: motion pictures (visual works)
Collection: Phil Fretz collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Kajapati
Date: 2004-01
Creator: Adler, Brian; Elliott, Cynthia
Description: Cal and Amanda Ruleman show Brian, Cynthia, and friends the local flora and fauna around Kajapati,. The group goes on a canoe trip. Also featured is the Peace Corps initiative to raise chickens in the community.
Subject: Kajapati; Suriname
Country: Suriname
Type: Video recordings
Collection: Brian Adler and Cynthia Elliott collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101415
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Powakka/Marchall Kreek
Date: 2003-09
Creator: Adler, Brian; Elliott, Cynthia
Description: Visit to fellow Peace Corps Volunteers in Powakka, an Amerindian Village, in Suriname for a birthday party with music, food, and dancing. The video includes the journey to and from Powakka. Also featured is the Adler’s community, Marchall Kreek. After a tour of their home, Brian Adler visits the local school and clinic which were the main Peace Corps projects in the village. He also takes a walk through the Maroon community down to the local soccer field.
Subject: Suriname; Marchall Kreek; Powakka
Country: Suriname
Type: Video recordings
Collection: Brian Adler and Cynthia Elliott collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101416
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: American University Student Response to Kent State shootings (part one), May 1970
Date: 1970-05
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: Film begins with scenes of students protesting on American University’s campus and vicinity. Students are shown washing car windows around Ward Circle, approaching vehicles and giving drivers flyers. The Artemas Ward statue is shown covered in a sheet that reads "How Many More?" There is extensive footage of the interaction between the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and students including one arrest. The film follows the students as they head downtown including scenes outside Peace Corps office on Pennsylvania Ave. The students end up on the National Mall for a large rally and concert.
Subject: College students -- Political activity -- United States; Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970; Student protesters; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States.
Local Identifier: AU_Teaching_Project_1
Type: black-and-white film
Collection: Ward Circle Protest Films, May 1970 (Teaching Project History)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:55829
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: American University Student Response to Kent State shootings (part two), May 1970
Date: 1970-05
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: Film begins with a stretcher being loaded into an ambulance by the Bethesda/Chevy Chase Rescue Squad and Red Cross workers. The bulk of the film consists of scenes of students congregating on and around American University’s campus including signs for a variety of activities such as a memorial service and smoke-in and images of the MPD response including tear gas canisters spewing gas and students washing out each others eyes. Also featured is footage of a formal gathering in the amphitheater with AU President George Williams, various campus administrators, and Professor Adbul Said. Though the film includes interviews with students, the soundtrack is missing so the interviews cannot be heard.
Subject: College students -- Political activity -- United States; Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970; Student protesters; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States.
Local Identifier: AU_Teaching_Project_2
Type: black-and-white film
Collection: Ward Circle Protest Films, May 1970 (Teaching Project History)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:55828
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: American University students and guests in campus student center during student protests in response to Kent State shootings, May 1970
Date: 1970-05
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: This film shows the interior of Mary Graydon Center on American University’s Campus during the Kent State protests. Some students are seen hanging out in the lounge and on the stairs while others are sleeping on the floor in sleeping bags. This footage was not selected for use in final version of the Strike film.
Subject: College students -- Political activity -- United States; Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970; Student protesters; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States.
Local Identifier: MGC_Sleeping_and_Waiting _Outs
Type: black-and-white film
Collection: Ward Circle Protest Films, May 1970 (Teaching Project History)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:55097
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: American University student response to Kent State shootings - Outs, May 1970
Date: 1970-05
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: This film features images of students and traffic around American University’s campus including the MPD presence around Ward Circle. One student is shown in handcuffs while others are shown giving the peace sign in front of a bus. This footage was not selected for the final version of the Strike film.
Subject: College students -- Political activity -- United States; Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970; Student protesters; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States.
Local Identifier: Strike _Outs
Type: black-and-white film
Collection: Ward Circle Protest Films, May 1970 (Teaching Project History)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:25218
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Concert held at American University during student protests in response to Kent State shootings, May 1970
Date: 1970-05
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: This film shows a concert held in the Woods-Brown Amphitheater at American University during the Kent State protests.
Subject: College students -- Political activity -- United States; Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970; Student protesters; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States.
Local Identifier: Rally_and_Concert
Type: black-and-white film
Collection: Ward Circle Protest Films, May 1970 (Teaching Project History)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:25217
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Video of the Strike (60)
Date: 2022-08-23
Creator: Amanda Kleinman
Description: Video footage from the American University Staff Union strike on August 23, 2022.
Subject: video; strike
Local Identifier: AUStaffUnion_VideoRecording_Kleinman.August23.2022_060
Type: video
Collection: Ephemera, Photos, and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:101482
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Video of the Strike (59)
Date: 2022-08-23
Creator: Amanda Kleinman
Description: Video footage from the American University Staff Union strike on August 23, 2022.
Subject: video; strike
Local Identifier: AUStaffUnion_VideoRecording_Kleinman.August23.2022_059
Type: video
Collection: Ephemera, Photos, and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:101481
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Video of the Strike (58)
Date: 2022-08-23
Creator: Amanda Kleinman
Description: Video footage from the American University Staff Union strike on August 23, 2022.
Subject: video; strike
Local Identifier: AUStaffUnion_VideoRecording_Kleinman.August23.2022_058
Type: video
Collection: Ephemera, Photos, and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:101480
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Video of the Strike (57)
Date: 2022-08-23
Creator: Amanda Kleinman
Description: Video footage from the American University Staff Union strike on August 23, 2022.
Subject: video; strike
Local Identifier: AUStaffUnion_VideoRecording_Kleinman.August23.2022_057
Type: video
Collection: Ephemera, Photos, and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:101479
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Video of the Strike (56)
Date: 2022-08-23
Creator: Amanda Kleinman
Description: Video footage from the American University Staff Union strike on August 23, 2022.
Subject: video; strike
Local Identifier: AUStaffUnion_VideoRecording_Kleinman.August23.2022_056
Type: video
Collection: Ephemera, Photos, and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:101478
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

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