Clara Barton

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

The History Chicks | AIRWAVE

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2011

⏱️ 68 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.
0:07.0	Little Ivy, this podcast is for you.
0:11.0	And here's your 30-second summary.
0:14.0	A timid little girl born in pre-civil war New England
0:18.0	transcends her timidity to become a teacher, a government worker, a warner, a humanitarian,
0:24.0	establishes the American Red Cross and is still known today as the angel of the battlefield.
0:29.0	The End.
0:33.0	Let's talk about Clara Barton.
0:35.0	That's a great idea.
0:36.0	First let's play her in history.
0:38.0	The first edition of the Saturday Evening Post is published.
0:42.0	And it will be published until 1969.
0:45.0	At Missouri, a state very near and dear to our hearts, is admitted as the 24th state.
0:51.0	Peru declares independence from Spain and gris gains independence from Turkey.
0:57.0	Napoleon Bonaparte dies.
0:59.0	James Monroe is sworn in as his second term as president.
1:03.0	And on Christmas Day 1821, Clara Harlow Barton was born.
1:09.0	We're talking about Clara Barton.
1:12.0	She was born Clarissa.
1:14.0	This is another Clara that was a Clarissa I know.
1:17.0	People.
1:19.0	Anyway, Clarissa Harlow Barton is her legal name.
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