Anna Jarvis, who launched the Mother’s Day movement in 1908 in honor of her own remarkable mother, would have had very complicated feelings about what the day has become, ...

Anna Jarvis founded Mother’s Day, then fought for decades against its commercialization, draining what wealth she had. She died alone and penniless. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

Anna Jarvis, the holiday's founder, wanted moms to have a deeply personal day to celebrate them. Her vision for the holiday was to be a tribute to "the best mother who ever lived, yours." ...

Founder Anna Jarvis may not have wanted Mother's Day to become a retail juggernaut but that hasn't stopped children from buying gifts, flowers, and sweets to honor their mothers.

During the Civil War, Anna’s mother, Ann Jarvis, cared for the wounded on both sides of the conflict.She also tried to orchestrate peace between Union and Confederate moms by forming a Mother ...

Twelve-year-old Anna Jarvis remembered that. Her mother died in 1905, and Jarvis, then in her 40s, promised at her gravesite that she’d be the one to answer her prayer.

Anna Jarvis spearheaded the effort to make Mother's Day a national holiday, she later grew to despise the holiday for being overly commercialized. Just $2 for 6 months! SUBSCRIBE NOW.

After Anna Jarvis inspired many others to follow her lead and write their mothers letters of gratitude, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation for the first national Mother's Day in 1914.

For Anna Jarvis, who expected it to be a quiet day of reflection on motherhood, it became a little too commercial once it hit the mainstream. Skyrocketing sales of greeting cards, ...

A 12-year-old Anna Jarvis overheard her mother’s prayer for a day honoring mothers, said Katharine Antolini, an assistant professor of history at West Virginia Wesleyan College, who authored the ...

While dining at a Philadelphia tearoom owned by her friend John Wanamaker, Anna Jarvis ordered a salad — then dumped it on the floor. Jarvis hated that the dish was called “Mother’s Day Salad,” named ...