I adore these ladies, always, and they did a great job of painting a picture of Clara's life. If you haven't listened to them yet, go do it. They are my go-to, feel good, enjoy women's history dynamos. Stories from My Childhood by Clara Barton. Ī Quiet Will: The Life of Clara Barton by William E. EASYTIME CLOCK VIDEO PROFESSIONALĮbook published by Big Byte Books, June 2015.Ĭlara Barton: Professional Angelby Elizabeth Brown Pryor, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. This was my favorite, as I felt it gave the least biased view of Clara, and delved the deepest into the realities of what she had to face. The Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum. Not only do they have a heap of great information on Clara Barton's life and work, but on nursing in general and the many other women who contributed in her lifetime. You'll find great primary resources, and so many cool stories. Plus, you can visit her Missing Soldiers Office! Next time I'm home in D.C., I'll be stopping in for sure. I heart the Library of Congress they have digitized a HUGE amount of her correspondence, diary entries, speech drafts, and other pieces of writing. The National Park Service and the Clara Barton Museum. This one has a lot of great images from Clara's life, including some of the everyday stuff she had around her. " Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield." by Claudia Swain. Boundary Stones: WETA's Local History blog, August 2016. ![]() " The Shape of Your Head and the Shape of Your Mind." Erika Janik, The Atlantic, January 2014. " Clara Barton." The National Park Service. " Founder Clara Barton." The American Red Cross.įor the sources I used on nursing more generally during the Civil War, check out my post on Lady Nurses (episode 2).Įpisode transcript Keep in mind that this is a draft document, and it won't match the episode exactly. i add and delete as i go, ad-libbing all sorts of absurdities in the dark confines of my recording fort.Ĭlarissa Harlowe Barton was born in Oxford, Massachusetts, on Christmas Day, 1821. She was the fifth and last child of the family, and the youngest of the bunch by about a decade. So while Clara, who they often called Baby, grew up surrounded by loving siblings, they often felt more like parents, and she felt like an only child. But being Baby came with advantages: she was everybody’s pet project. Each family member took it upon themselves to educate her, often in things that would come in handy later in life. ![]() Her dad, Stephen Barton, had married young Sara Stone back in 1804. Rather hastily, I might add, as their first child was born only five months later. Whoops! The Bartons and Stones had long been a part of this rural New England community: full of churches, clapboard houses, farms and mills. Now a well-respected middle-class farmer, Stephen was considered a man of sound judgement and stately bearing.
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