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The Pacifist Origins of Mother’s Day by Trav S.D.

Decades before it became a commercial opportunity for card shops and florists, Mother’s Day was conceived by Julia Ward Howe (“Battle Hymn of the Republic”) as a female-driven holiday to promote world peace. Her proposal strikes me as a better gambit for humanity than anything else that has been tried. Here is an excerpt from […]

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:00AM on May 10, 2026

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