Mothers' Day: Peace
May 10, 2024 Dear Reader, What was the original meaning and the motivation for marking a special day for mothers? Historian Heather Cox Richardson explains: "Mothers’ Day—with the apostrophe not in the singular spot, but in the plural—actually started in the 1870s, when the sheer enormity of the death caused by the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War convinced American women that women must take control of politics from the men who had permitted such carnage. Mothers’ Day was not designed...