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Stories from the Stacks

a blog for exciting projects and newly-digitized collections in the AFS Archives

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AFS Archives, History, Stories from the Stacks

AFS Drivers on Leave: Cultural Experiences during World War II

The nature of the volunteer work done by the American Field Service volunteer ambulance corps is well documented in the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs. …

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AFS Archives, History, Stories from the Stacks

Photographs in the AFS Archives: The Arthur Howe, Jr. Collection

The AFS Archives is pleased to announce the online accessibility of 375 photographs from the Arthur Howe, Jr. Collection! The collection documents the impactful life Arthur “Art” Howe, Jr., an AFSer…

Major Ward B. Chamberlin, 1945.  Photograph by Irving Penn
AFS Archives, AFS Volunteer, Changemaking, History, Stories from the Stacks

Ward B. Chamberlin, Jr., 1921-2017: AFS Volunteer, Broadcaster, and Changemaker

“I learned that with the right leadership, a good idea, and a volunteer spirit, you could accomplish wonders, and those are the principles we applied to the AFS exchange programs.” –Ward B. Chamberlin, Jr.

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AFS Archives, Education, History, Stories from the Stacks

AFS Receives C. Herbert Finch Online Publication Award

AFS has been awarded the 2016 C. Herbert Finch Online Publication Award for The Volunteers: Americans Join World War I, 1914-1919 Curriculum.  This award is given out to one project each year…

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AFS Archives, Changemaking, History, Stories from the Stacks

“A burning desire to do what one could”: Archiving Arthur Howe, Jr.’s Collection

My first contact with Arthur Howe, Jr. was two years ago, when I was an intern in the AFS Archives, and it is a very romantic story. I came across…

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AFS Archives, History, Stories from the Stacks

Photographs in the AFS Archives: Friends of France

Friends of France: The Field Service of the American Ambulance Described by its Members (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916) was published by the American Ambulance Field Service during World…

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AFS Archives, History, Stories from the Stacks

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 on January 21, 2013 in Washington, D.C.  The owner of…

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