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The Radical Roots of Mother’s Day

HYMN TO HER

Julia Ward Howe saw it as a day celebrating pacifism, and it later became a battleground where suffragists and anti-suffragists waged war over the proper role of mothers.

Elaine Weiss
Elaine Weiss
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