Julia Ward Howe

Memorial Day: A History

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics


Kenneth C. Davis

'Why don't the mothers of mankind interfere in these matters, to prevent the waste of that human life of which they alone bear and know the cost?'

Mother's Day: Anti-War Celebration

Jeanine Molloff | Posted 05.14.2008 | Home


Jeanine Molloff

Julia Ward-Howe established the holiday for a radical reason: to end the violence plaguing the post-Civil War South. This Sunday the mothers of the children dying in Iraq deserve more than a card.