Tag Archives: Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is a popular (now commercialized) holiday in the United States. We cover a number of topics, including its humble, non-commercial origin.

May 9, 2021

May 2021

Anna Jarvis and the Origin of Mother’s Day in the United States

Nicholas A. Ferrell

〜Contemporaneous newspaper accounts of Anna Jarvis’s successful effort to make Mother’s Day a holiday in the United States〜