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 ...

Clara Barton was born in Oxford, Massachusetts, in 1821, the youngest of five children. When the Civil War began in 1861, she ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The other letter actually mentions Clara Barton’s Roll of Missing Soldiers, which she posted in newspapers in an effort to find the missing men or discover their fates. [The letter is copied using the ...

An aerial map by Heyer Gruel and Associates shows the area that the town is looking to rehabilitate. EDISON -- The Clara Barton neighborhood in west Edison is the closest thing that this sprawling ...

Between Civil War battles in early 1864, Massachusetts-born Clara Barton, who died 100 years ago on April 12, 2012, was stuck in Washington with time on her hands. She was mentally exhausted by ...

Monday marks the 150th anniversary of the single bloodiest day ever on American soil, the battle of Antietam during the Civil War. More than 22,000 soldiers from the Union and Confederate armies were ...