Revealing history on Mothers Day (or Mother’s Day) by my favorite history professor.
"Howe had a new vision, she said, of “the august dignity of motherhood and its terrible responsibilities.” She sat down immediately and wrote an “Appeal to Womanhood Throughout the World.” Men always had and always would decide questions by resorting to “mutual murder,” she wrote, but women did not have to accept “proceedings which fill the globe with grief and horror.” Mothers could command their sons, “who owe their life to her suffering,” to stop the madness.”
#mothersday #civllwar #war #warcrimes #HeatherCoxRichardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-11-2024
