Happy Mother's Day! Did you know that the roots of Mother's Day trace back to Julia Ward Howe's impassioned call for peace during the aftermath of the Civil War? In 1870, Howe proposed Mother’s Peace Day, envisioning a day for mothers to unite in advocating for peace and an end…
In the face of the horrors in Gaza, I am uplifted by the historical origins of today’s celebrations in the 1870 proclamation of Mother’s Day for Peace by noted abolitionist and feminist Julia Ward Howe.
154 years on, her message still unifies us with the long struggle to abandon…