Clarissa "Clara" Harlowe Barton is among ... leanings made her too controversial. Barton was in Washington in early 1861 when the Civil War began. One of the first volunteers at the city'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 ...

It was Clara Barton ... for women. Barton was a trailblazer paving the way for women, like my grandmother and mother, to later work in government offices. The American Civil War broke out while ...