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 story of the founding of the American Red Cross by Clara Barton is well-known to many across the country. What might not be so well-know are Baton’s efforts to locate missing Union Soldiers ...

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 ...

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 ...

What does this letter reveal about America's early efforts to honor its war dead? Dated July 1866, the letter reports the death of a man named Israel Brown. Along with the letter, our contributor ...

She was born in Massachusetts on December 25, 1821, the youngest of Stephen and Sarah Barton’s five children. They named her Clarissa Harlowe Barton after the main character in a popular British novel ...

Tomorrow is the last day to turn in signed ballots for the 2026 Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin Board of Directors election.