America First: 100 Stories from Our Own History

Leif the Lucky, the swamp march to Vincennes, the Pony Express — a hundred true adventure stories from American history, told the way children begged to hear them in 1920.

Clara Barton and the Red Cross

2 pages in this part of America First.

Clara Barton and the Red Cross

At the outbreak of the Civil War, a young woman who was a clerk in the Patent Office, at Washington, gave up her position, and volunteered…

Clara Barton and the Red Cross: Paris

After the war, the city of Paris was in the hands of lawless men of the lowest character. The Army of the Republic besieged the city, and…

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