The history of American Mother’s Day can be traced to 1870 when Julia Ward Howe (author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic) called upon mothers to put an end to war. But it wasn’t until 1912 when West Virginia created an official state Mother’s Day, and two years later that President Woodrow Wilson made it a national observance on the second Sunday in May.
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