Clara Barton was born in Oxford in 1821 ... The Red Cross is the name we all associate today with disaster relief here at ...

Clarissa "Clara" Harlowe Barton is among the most honored women ... of the soldiers were "her boys": young men she'd taught back home in New England. Barton soon realized that supplies and support ...

Half a century before she founded the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had her first nursing ... founded schools of her own, one in her home state and another in New Jersey, then moved to ...

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 ...