Clara barton

There are so many wonderful directions you can go with a study on Clara Barton! Our top recommendations are to study her life, the American Red Cross, First Aid, human anatomy, medicine or the American Civil War. Here are a few ideas to get you started in those areas! You can grab your free downloads to go along with the Clara Barton letter here! Don't have our Clara Barton Heritage Letter yet? You can grab the snail mail version here or the digital version here! For All Ages Videos…

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Learn more about Clara Barton, an incredible woman who made many advances in medical care and started the American Red Cross.

Clara Barton

Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross

17-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today: Saturday, April 13, 1912: I was so busy mending my numerous rips and tears and getting to something like they ought to be. Her middle-…

Clarissa “Clara” Harlowe Barton was an educator, suffragist, and nurse who founded the American Red Cross in 1881. She was a hospital nurse in the

Today is book report day! Michaela has a five-notecard presentation all set to deliver to her class today about the life of Clara Barton, Angel of the Battlefield. She was a really remarkable woman, waaaay ahead of her time, who was a teacher, founded a free public school, tended to Civil War soldiers, connected missing soldiers with their worried families, and went on the bring the Red Cross to America. I, of course, was mostly giddy about making a costume, any kind of costume, and was…