clara barton – Cannonball Read 17

History is Made by Persistence and Knowing the Right People

A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton & the Civil War by Stephen B. Oates

September 12, 2022 by Ale Leave a Comment

Clara Barton is one of those historical figures that sits as a vaguely understood fact in my mind. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know about her existence, but beyond being the founder of the American Red Cross, she never bore much significance to me. But then I wrote a little article about visiting small historical sites and the “Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office” came up in my search. A cursory perusal of the website had me fascinated, and I needed to know […]

Who says a woman can’t fight?

To the Front!: Clara Barton Braves the Battle of Antietam by Claudia Friddell

March 2, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The poetic prose manner of the book, To the Front!: Clara Barton Braves the Battle of Antietam, might have been suited best for a non-picture book format. Also, the subject, as it is portrayed on the pages created by Claudia Friddell, might be too old for the picture book crowd. I would put the ages at least second grade to a fourth grader who is slightly on the younger side. But the subject is for not sensitive readers. This was not an easy read for […]

This spring came the third flood

A Story of the Red Cross by Clara Barton

February 17, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a kind of institutional memoir and document of advocacy written by Clara Barton, found of the American Red Cross, and published in 1904. The book begins with Clara Barton’s responding to a query by a young letter writer (whether real or emblematic) and so begins a nonfiction account that is similar to Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas in its format and design. The letter writer asks Clara Barton not to simply tell the history of the Red Cross or explain its motivating rationale, but to tells […]

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