Yankee Magazine recently picked 12 of the most beautiful places in New England, including a spot on Cape Cod Bay.

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Learn the history and meaning behind the Civil War anthem with full John Brown's Body lyrics and understand its impact on Union troops and American folk..

Mount Auburn Cemetery is famous as the country's first garden cemetery and is where Julia Ward Howe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Isabella Stewart Gardner, to name a few, are laid to rest.

A Mother's Day vigil was held Sunday outside the Portland ICE facility, organized by Portland for Palestine to honor mothers unjustly detained and separated.

In 1870 author and poet Julia Ward Howe issued a Mother’s Day proclamation encouraging women to speak out against war.

Julia Ward Howe was inspired by this dream to start A Mother’s Day for Peace. We can do more to protect mothers and children from war and it starts by being an advocate for peace.

Ann Reeves Jarvis and Julia Ward Howe are credited with starting this tradition in the United States. According to History.com, the origins of Mother’s Day as celebrated in the United States ...

Another woman, Julia Ward Howe, was also deeply impacted by the tragedy of the Civil War. An abolitionist, suffragette and poet, she is best known for writing the words to the “Battle Hymn of ...

Suffragist and writer Julia Ward Howe first suggested the idea of Mother’s Day in the United States in 1872. Howe was a pacifist and saw the holiday as a chance to unite women and rally for peace.

Mount Auburn ‘s 175 acres in Cambridge and Watertown pay tribute not only to those laid to rest here—including Julia Ward Howe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Isabella Stewart Gardner—but ...