Surviving the destruction wrought by tornados, hurricanes or other natural disasters can be a devastating experience. Often, in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophe, people are reeling from shock ...

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 ...

Sixteen years before she founded the American Red Cross, Clara Barton established the Missing Soldiers Office in 1865. The office strived to determine what happened to Union troops that had gone ...

Between Civil War battles in early 1864, Massachusetts-born Clara Barton, who died 100 years ago on April 12, 2012, was stuck in Washington with time on her hands. She was mentally exhausted by ...

Monday marks the 150th anniversary of the single bloodiest day ever on American soil, the battle of Antietam during the Civil War. More than 22,000 soldiers from the Union and Confederate armies were ...

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 ...

In 1834, Sarah Josepha Hale, the great American editor and champion of female education, published an article in her magazine calling for the nursing profession—then the domain of men—to be opened to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission once again showed its support for the Clara Barton House and ...