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Mother's Day/Mothers' Day/Mothers Day

Suffragist Julia Ward Howe popularized Mother's Day as a pacifist holiday after the carnage of the Civil War. Listen to her 1870 proclamation read by…

Julia Ward Howe

So many great suffragists were born for the struggle. They were iconoclasts, rebels from the beginning. Many remained unmarried, or married unusual…

The other side of the split

I’m spending so much time on the 1869 split because it reflects and anticipates so many activist conflicts since: over race and racism, over who gets…