May 9, 2020

If you google the history of Mother’s Day, the internet will tell you that Mother’s Day began in 1908 when Anna Jarvis decided to honor her mother. But “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…

Read the originalLetters from an American · Heather Cox Richardsonheathercoxrichardson.substack.com

Saved from Feedly · Saved For Later

Originally published