Nurse Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton was born on Christmas ... SOLO FLIGHT ACROSS ATLANTIC At the time of the American Civil War, Barton shifted her career once again, becoming a battlefield ...

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 ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...