Major social and political forces led to the establishment of Mother's Day as a major and official holiday. This episode explains those forces, and also tells us who founded Mother's Day. Was it Julia Ward Howe with her famous "Appeal to Womanhood" Peace Proclamation in 1870? Or did Anna Marie Jarvis found it, honoring her own mother in 1908? And what did war and campaigns for international disarmament have to do with the history of Mother's Day? Encore episode.
view more
More Episodes
Anarcha: One of the Mothers of Gynecology
2023-08-29
2023-08-29
Gun Carnage in the United States
2023-08-22
2023-08-22
Titanic Myths Smashed!
2023-08-15
2023-08-15
Oppenheimer: the Man, the Myth, the Movie
2023-08-01
2023-08-01
The Atomic Bombs: Flashback Friday 2023
2023-07-28
2023-07-28
Religious Conversions in Modern America
2023-07-25
2023-07-25
Absalom Markland and Freedom's Mail
2023-07-17
2023-07-17
Julius Streicher: Piece of Sh*t Saturday
2023-07-08
2023-07-08
Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960
2023-06-13
2023-06-13
Loving Day: 2023
2023-06-12
2023-06-12
The American South and Country Capitalism
2023-06-06
2023-06-06
Mourning the Presidents
2023-05-30
2023-05-30
Get this podcast on your
phone, FREE
