The Curious Trunk & the Lost Cairn: An AFS Historian's Journey

The AFS Exchange by AFS-USA

Apr 14, 202533:11Society & Culture

Welcome back to The AFS Exchange for the second part of our Founders' Day celebration! After covering the "when" and "what" of AFS's start in WWI in our last episode, we're now diving into the "who"- the p...

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