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Baylor's Elizabeth Silva Wins State Poetry Out Loud Competition
Baylor junior Elizabeth Silva won the state Poetry Out Loud competition in Franklin, Tn., becoming the first Baylor student ...
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JULIA WARD HOWE'S POEM.; She Reads a Tribute to Lincoln Written in Her Ninetieth Year.
BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 12. -- This poem, written by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe in her 90th year, was read by her at the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln in Symphony Hall to-night ...
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History of "John Brown's Body"
During a visit to Washington in the autumn of 1861, poet Julia Ward Howe attended a public parade and review of Union troops. On her way back to Willard's Hotel she found her carriage delayed by ...
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A Record-Breaking War on Mothers and their Children
Julia Ward Howe, a passionate anti-war activist and promoter of world peace, inspired the first public “Mother’s Day for Peace” rally held in New York City on June 2, 1872. Her 1870 Mother ...