Bringing up Mommy.

Knight Ridder/Tribune | May 2, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: Debra-Lynn B. Hook

Hallmark did not invent Mother's Day.

On the contrary, the first American Mother's Day 136 years ago was a call to something bigger than the commercial veneration of mothers.

The call was peace, the day, "Mother's Peace Day," as it was coined by its founder, Julia Ward Howe.

No stranger to activism throughout a life that began in 1819, Howe was an abolitionist, a suffragette and a poet who wrote the words to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."

But it was when Howe was in her 50s that she took up her most ...

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