Ten Georgetown University students are researching the life of American Red Cross founder Clara Barton in collaboration with ...

Explore Clara Barton’s legacy with Smithsonian interns at historic sites that preserve women’s history, from the Missing ...

Listen to new episodes on your smartphone or other device. The nurse who founded the American Red Cross had no formal training in medicine. She tended to countless wounded soldiers. Special episodes ...

Clara Barton was a "trailblazer"who became "arguably the most famous woman in America" during the Civil War, according to authors of a recent book about Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross. ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton worked as a clerk in this building, which was then the U.S.

History Detective host Eduardo Pagán consults a Clara Barton biographer, a civil war prison historian, and a Pennsylvania genealogist to determine whether an 1866 letter about the death of a Civil War ...

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