Half a century before she founded the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had her ... The week after the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Barton began nursing Union soldiers at an improvised ...

The museum’s celebration of these events will include a Civil War family day on June 11 ... Walt Whitman and Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, cared for wounded Union soldiers ...

Actor Alec Baldwin warned his social media followers Tuesday that he believes the United States exists in a “pre-Civil War culture.” “Boy, you can see now that we are in a pre-Civil War ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments later this month over what would be the first religious public charter school in the United States, in a case that finds Republican Oklahoma ...

Mohammed Othman, a Palestinian survivor of the April 13, 1975 attack on a bus carrying Palestinians that sparked Lebanon's civil war, prays over the graves of those killed that day, at the ...

Howard Pyle’s "The Battle of Nashville" captures the harrowing advance of Minnesota soldiers through smoke and mud in a pivotal Civil War clash. If the Minnesota State Capitol were on fire ...

The driver and a passenger were transported to the Clara Barton Medical Center in Hoisington with serious injuries. The patrol identified the driver as Benjamin Ryan Pflughoeft, 16, and the ...

One West Des Moines family will never forget the ambulance ride that changed their lives. Alex and Jessica Gaudian welcomed their daughter, Clara, into the world in a very unexpected way.