Author @ the Library: "The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal," with Marian Moser Jones, Ph.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor of family science at the University of Maryland School of Public Health.

This illustrated lecture examines how humanity and neutrality, the two ideals that early Red Cross leaders chose as guiding principles, took on varied and sometimes conflicting meanings in the context of real-world emergencies.  In this lecture, the author also highlights Clara Barton's humanitarian work in Cuba and its New York connections.  She discusses the controversies and conflicts that surrounded this work, how Clara Barton unwittingly helped build the case for the U.S. invasion of Cuba in 1898, and how this work led to a major leadership shake-up at the American Red Cross.