Activist, abolitionist, suffragist, author and charismatic speaker Julia Ward Howe has a message for the audience that can ring with urgency across over 150 years in Joyce Van Dyke's ...

Julia Ward Howe remembered years later that she had awakened around dawn in her room in Willard’s Hotel with the lyrics floating in her head. It was November 1861, and she was on her first trip ...

Julia Ward Howe, an abolitionist and women's rights activist, was born in New York in 1819 but had deep family roots in Rhode Island. A prolific writer and speaker, Howe championed various social ...

Howe, Julia Ward 1819-1910 Contents The princess in the castle -- The knight-errant -- The hero and the belle -- Marriage and maternity -- Rome again, ... Summary "Julia Howe (1819 -1910) was a ...

For a holiday today so associated with celebration, it is a stark lesson that Mother’s Day began with pain. In Boston in the early 1870s, Julia Ward Howe — the author of a poem called “The ...

LENOX — In 1910, when author, suffragist and social activist Julia Ward Howe died, her memorial at Boston’s Symphony Hall attracted an overflowing crowd of 4,000 people. Today, however, she is ...

The United States Army Field Band delivers a powerful performance of the iconic Civil War-era anthem, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” With lyrics by Julia Ward Howe and conducted by 1st Lt ...