A shimmering new public mural will go a long way in cementing Dansville's legacy as the community where Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. Artists Melissa Stratton Pandina and Gabriela ...

To call Clara Barton just a nurse insults her legacy, despite what your history teacher may have taught you. She was a woman of numerous accomplishments, and in some ways, she was all too human. Here ...

Through the evening of September 16, 1862, in Sharpsburg, Maryland, 131,000 soldiers sat by the light of their campfires and waited for morning. On one half of the battlefield sat 87,000 Union men ...

The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton on this day in history, May 21, 1881. Nurse Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton was born on Christmas Day, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts, the ...

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 ...

Surviving the destruction wrought by tornados, hurricanes or other natural disasters can be a devastating experience. Often, in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophe, people are reeling from shock ...

Born Clarissa Harlowe Barton on Dec. 25, 1821, at 68 Clara Barton Road, North Oxford; died at age 90 from double pneumonia in Glen Echo, Md., on April 12, 1912. She is buried in North Cemetery in ...

It was Clara Barton, 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 ...

The American Music Theatre Project and the Wirtz Center this past weekend premiered “The Battlefields of Clara Barton,” a modern folk-rock musical exploring Barton’s role as a nurse in the Civil War.

FARGO — The Clara Barton neighborhood is getting praise as one of the best "Sleep Sanctuaries" in the nation. Clara Barton almost cracked the top 250 neighborhoods that provide tranquil living while ...