The powerful 19th-century philanthropist, best remembered as the mother of the American Red Cross and one of the few women to appear on a United States postage stamp, confided her private thoughts primarily to her diaries. Recent renovations to her home unearthed the diaries and allowed the historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor to write a modern biography that opens Barton to the scrutiny she sought to avoid.

Instructional Unit for the study of
Clara Barton