Clarissa "Clara" Harlowe Barton is among the most honored women in American history. A groundbreaking example of selfless volunteer service, Barton began her professional life as a Massachusetts ...

Half a century before she founded the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had her first nursing ... “In the earlier years of my life I remember nothing but fear,” she wrote in her 1907 autobiography.

It was Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, who said, "You must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it." Barton's philosophy captures the spirit of America’s ...