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The historical record shows that from the beginning of the United States as a nation, Thanksgiving has been about giving thanks to God. Our Founding Fathers – and subsequent presidents – apparently did not hesitate to call Americans as a nation to pray to God, give thanks for our blessings, and repent of our shortcomings and sins.
The roots of Memorial Day go deeper than acknowledged Patricia Wilson View Comments Americans have long believed that the first observance of Memorial Day, (first known as Decoration Day) was held under the leadership of former Union Gen. John A. Logan on May 30, 1868, and from that date until the end of World War I, it honored only the Civil War dead. Dr. David W. Blight, professor of history at Yale University and recipient of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in history, is known for his exhaustive research in the field of the Civil War and Reconstruction as well as African American history. His 2...
The fierce prophetic vision of poor women...
Honoring Mothers Must Include Environmental Justice and Raising Wages Juthaporn Chaloeicheep, 44, and son Douglas Jones, 5, stand for a portrait in the courtyard of Arnett Watson Apartments, a permanent supportive housing community where they reside in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, California, on March 16, 2021. Stephen Lam / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images By One hundred and fifty years ago, in the bloody wake of the Civil War, the abolitionist Julia Ward Howe issued a “Mother’s Day Proclamation.” The world, she wrote, could no longer bear such terrible vi...
The fierce prophetic vision of poor women Author unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Julia Ward Howe TomDispatchMay 13, 2021 One hundred and fifty years ago, in the bloody wake of the Civil War, the abolitionist Julia Ward Howe issued a "Mother's Day Proclamation." The world, she wrote, could no longer bear such terrible violence and death. She called on women across the country to "rise up through the ashes and devastation" and come together in the cause of peace. Forty years later, her daughter Anna Jarvis created Mother's Day. In the midst of another national trau...