In 1856, Lawrence, Kan., was burned by pro-slavery forces. In 1881, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. In 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed Bobby Franks ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this lesson, students learn about Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, through primary and secondary source documents, then use digital storytelling tools to tell the story of her ...

March 19 -- Miss Clara Barton, President of the American National Red Cross, has written to Dr. Joseph Gardner of Bedford. Ind., accepting his munificent gift of a large tract of land in Indiana ...