News from the Archives

Again with AFS...this time at the Archives!

Read about the experience of an AFS Returnee in the AFS Archives, and the newly digitized World War I-era letters of Regis H. Post in this article...
Two Brothers: Stories from the Front Lines of World War I

Historic New England will be coordinating a special event at the about the American Field Service during World War I on Saturday, April 13, at the Cape Ann Museum...
AFS Ambulance Featured in U.S. President’s Inaugural Parade

A World War I American Field Service (AFS) reconstructed ambulance was featured in President Barack H. Obama’s second inaugural parade...
Notizie da Irene: Part 2

This is the second in a series of posts by Irene Ameglio, the Fondazione CRT Intern in the AFS Archives...
Notizie da Irene: Part 1

This is the first in a series of posts by Irene Ameglio, the Fondazione CRT Intern in the AFS Archives...
Pratt Digitization Project

The Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs (AFS Archives) participated in a digitization project with the Pratt Institute...
World War I Event at Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House

Historic New England will be hosting a special historic home tour featuring AFS memorabila Beauport, the former home of Henry Sleeper, on June 20th...
In Memoriam: Raymond Aubrac

AFS is saddened to report the death of Raymond Aubrac, one of the leaders of the French Resistance during World War II and a former AFS French Fellow...
On Stage: The WWII Letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and AFS Driver Norton S. Baskin

AFS Archives photographs and documents will be included in the upcoming stage performances of...
John C. Cobb Photographic Collection Now Available Online

The John C. Cobb Photographic Collection finding aid is now available on the Web site for the Arc...
The Sabbath of History: William Congdon

The photograph depicted above is now featured in the catalog for “The Sabbath of History:...
Musée de la Grande Guerre

The American Field Service (AFS) originated as the Transportation Department in an auxiliary mi...
Giving Back: An AFS Returnee's Experience in the AFS Archives

In the summer of 2003, when I was seventeen, I boarded a plane to New Zealand as an A...
Descriptions of Unique AFS Archival Material from both World Wars Now Available Online

New York City, June 30, 2011 - For the first time, descriptions of the World War I and II collect...
AFS Archives Photograph Selected for Cover of National Publication

The Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs (AFS Archives) recei...