Today's blog post is about the Netherlands Carillon, gifted to the United States by the Netherlands to express gratitude for America’s aid to the Dutch people during and after World War II.
Clara Barton is well known as the “angel of the battlefield,” who tended to wounded soldiers during the Civil War, but she also played an important role in the United States’ entry into an international treaty. Following the Geneva Conference of 1863, the first treaty of the Geneva Convention was ratified by 12 nations in …