Clarissa "Clara" Harlowe Barton is among the most honored women ... to work for the federal government—a job she lost when her abolitionist leanings made her too controversial.

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 ...

It was Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, who said, "You must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it." Barton's philosophy captures the spirit of America’s ...