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 ...

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 ...

Sixteen years before she founded the American Red Cross, Clara Barton established the Missing Soldiers Office in 1865. The office strived to determine what happened to Union troops that had gone ...

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 ...

Clara Barton is best known for founding the American Red Cross and serving as a battlefield nurse during the Civil War, but did you know she never received any formal training in medicine? As it turns ...

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 ...

A historic building that played a major role after the 1889 Johnstown Flood is receiving more funding for restoration. State and local leaders gathered Tuesday at the Clara Barton House in downtown ...

Clara Barton Clarissa Harlowe Barton, or as she preferred Clara, was born in Oxford, Massachusetts, U.S. on Christmas day, (December 25) 1821. She was the youngest of five children. Despite being the ...

During the U.S. Civil War, many doctors refused to work with women. Clara Barton, who took on nursing at the time, didn’t listen to them. It started with the Baltimore Riot on April 19, 1861. Fighting ...