Tributes
Dick Murphy Celebration of Life Remarks By Bill Burns – March 1, 2025 “Dick Murphy’s humanity shone through in NEA,…
Fifty Years in USAID: Stories From the Front Lines
Published in November 2012 by Arlington Hall Press, an imprint of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, this collection…
Joys and Perils of Living Abroad: Memoirs of a Foreign Service Family
Diego Asencio met Nancy Rodriguez in 1951, and the young couple married in 1953. Diego entered the U.S Foreign Service…
Strangers When We Met: A Century of American Community in Kuwait
This history, twenty years in the research and writing, relates the story of Americans living in Kuwait, beginning with the…
Getting Past The Interpreter To Clinch an Aircraft Deal
Getting Past The Interpreter To Clinch an Aircraft Deal U.S. Ambassadors are often asked to weigh in on a big…
Documenting Human Rights Abuses in Argentina’s “Dirty War”
Documenting Human Rights Abuses in Argentina’s “Dirty War” Franklyn Allen Harris, known to his colleagues as “Tex,” was born in…
Evacuating Rwanda in the Midst of Genocide
Evacuating Rwanda in the Midst of Genocide The Foreign Service took Arlene Render from a segregated neighborhood in Cleveland…
United States Diplomacy: From Its Beginnings to Today
United States Diplomacy: From Its Beginnings to Today Celebrating diplomatic accomplishments throughout America’s 250-year history. Created with support from the Una…
Connecticut
Contributions by Connecticuters in the Foreign Service People born, raised, or educated in Connecticut have made important contributions to America’s…
Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords: 1995 – 2025
About The Project To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords (DPA), the Association for Diplomatic Studies…