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 ...

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 ...

The story of the founding of the American Red Cross by Clara Barton is well-known to many across the country. What might not be so well-know are Baton’s efforts to locate missing Union Soldiers ...

Two decades before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton was a humanitarian without a cause. A former schoolteacher working as a clerk for the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C., Barton ...

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 ...

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 ...

What does this letter reveal about America's early efforts to honor its war dead? Dated July 1866, the letter reports the death of a man named Israel Brown. Along with the letter, our contributor ...