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 ...

She was born in Massachusetts on December 25, 1821, the youngest of Stephen and Sarah Barton’s five children. They named her Clarissa Harlowe Barton after the main character in a popular British novel ...

WASHINGTON — In the middle of a disaster, we expect to see Red Cross volunteers rushing to the aid of those hit the hardest. The American Red Cross represents a hope for all Americans: that volunteers ...

In 1834, Sarah Josepha Hale, the great American editor and champion of female education, published an article in her magazine calling for the nursing profession—then the domain of men—to be opened to ...

I'm sometimes struck by how little we know about many of the men and women whose vision and determination have shaped our history. Like Clara Barton. In a small niche in my memory bank, I have her ...

FITCHBURG — When the Academy Street School was sold by the city, a tree planted in honor of Civil War nurse and American Red Cross founder Clara Barton went with it. That same night, Civil War buff ...

Hagerstown officials have an idea for their next piece of public art in town: a memorial honoring a woman who blazed trails in how people are assisted in disasters. And she did it in Washington County ...