A Lifelong Friendship: Waldo Peirce and Ernest Hemingway
In 1915, Harvard graduate Waldo Peirce volunteered as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service in France. After the…
Archival Spotlight
highlighting exciting and unique items from the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs
Our Friend France, 1917
The American Field Service (AFS) relied on donations from Americans in the United States to purchase ambulances during World War…
Presidential Election on the S.S. Waterman, 1968
AFS Participants simulated the 1968 U.S. presidential elections aboard the S.S. Waterman on their way back to Europe after spending…
Edward J. Kelley, 1916
On the evening of September 23, 1916, AFS volunteer ambulance driver Roswell Sanders took Edward J. Kelley, a newly-arrived volunteer,…
Marsh’s Marauders, 1945
This photograph shows AFS volunteer William Boardman Kinter waiting on the Kalaw Staircase for casualties in Burma in 1945. Kinter…
The Enduring Legacy of Richard Nelville Hall
Richard Nelville Hall volunteered for AFS immediately after graduating from Dartmouth College in 1915. In a letter to his parents,…
AFSers at the Washington Monument, 1978
In 1978, the AFS students hosted in the United States converged on the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. the day…
From AFS to the Lafayette Escadrille
After a recent renovation, the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial was rededicated on April 20, 2016 in the presence of dignitaries from…
My Grandfather, the Pacifist
Conrad Wilson, a Quaker and conscientious objector, volunteered as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service in 1944. He…