Clarissa "Clara" Harlowe Barton is among the most honored women in American history. A groundbreaking example of selfless volunteer service, Barton began her professional life as a Massachusetts ...

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 ...

Clara Barton is best known for founding the American Red Cross and serving as a battlefield nurse during the Civil War, but did you know she never received any formal training in medicine? As it turns ...

The American Music Theatre Project and the Wirtz Center this past weekend premiered “The Battlefields of Clara Barton,” a modern folk-rock musical exploring Barton’s role as a nurse in the Civil War.

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 ...

Dozens of people, including nurses and American Red Cross volunteers, attended a dedication ceremony Tuesday for the new Clara Barton Memorial along the Hagerstown Cultural Trail. The base of the ...