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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
Published
May 12 2018
9:51PM EDT
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