Although much of the work is done, it does not appear that a section of the George Washington (GW) Parkway that has been ...

Explore Clara Barton’s legacy with Smithsonian interns at historic sites that preserve women’s history, from the Missing Soldiers Office to the Red Cross. Rachel F. Seidman In 1997, while examining a ...

Ten Georgetown University students are researching the life of American Red Cross founder Clara Barton in collaboration with a National Park Service site to bolster the content of the site’s exhibits ...

At the Clara Barton School, young voices and bold questions fill the halls. Serving nearly 500 students in Pre-K through 2nd grade, the school has a clear mission: to develop strong readers, writers ...

STATELINE, Nev. – Barton Memorial Hospital has earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit watchdog focused on patient safety. This national ...

Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office in Washington D.C. The Civil War left thousands of families in the dark about their loved ones. No one knew who lived or died until Clara Barton stepped in.

Through the dense smoke a reverberation of artillery and whizzing of bullets mingles with the battle cries forced through gnashed teeth of those engaged in close combat. It is a scene straight from ...

In a quartet of biographies, he explored how slavery and racial oppression could exist in a land based on the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. By Katharine Q. Seelye In “Every Drop of Blood, ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton worked as a clerk in this building, which was then the U.S.

Half a century before she founded the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had her first nursing experience at age 11, when her older brother fell off a barn roof. For nearly two years she remained at his ...

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On this date in history: In 1832, the first Democratic Party national convention convened in Baltimore. In 1856, Lawrence, Kan., was burned by pro-slavery forces. In 1881, Clara Barton founded the ...