Category: Foreign Service Stories

by Jonathan B. Rickert

by Gregory John Orr

by Jim Bullington

by Mark Wentling

by Susan Clyde

American speaker programs were long a staple of US Information Agency (USIA) programs overseas. Not all went as planned.

by David Cowhig Chinese physician Dr. Wang Shuping predicted the HIV epidemic among Henan peasant blood sellers and eventually raised the alarm all the way to Beijing when local and provincial authorities ignored the rapid spread of HIV among the … Read more

by Dick Virden

by Diane Johnston

by Richard Gilbert

by Hans Tuch

A Recipe Book. An Airlift. A Song.
By Prudence Bushnell (U.S. Ambassador, Retired)

by Larry Clinton Thompson

by Hans Tuch

by Bob Baker

by Beatrice Camp

by Ralph Bresler

by Elizabeth Krijgsman

by Peter Bridges

by Ben East I pictured myself in a Peace Corps-issue hammock on an island somewhere, or crossing high glaciers in the glaring Himalayan sun. Then the recruiter called and offered Malawi. Pointless to remind her what I’d written where the … Read more