Be it known Father’s Day and Mother’s Day are alike. The latest Father’s Day gift coming to showpeople is called Bowling for Alimony. It’s just that on Father’s Day the gift is cheaper. And paid for ...

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." ...

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, ...

Years after she founded Mother’s Day, Anna Jarvis was dining at the Tea Room at Wanamaker’s department store in Philadelphia. She saw they were offering a “Mother’s Day Salad.” She ...

Anna Jarvis spearheaded the effort to make Mother's Day a national holiday, she later grew to despise the holiday for being overly commercialized. 3 months/99¢ a month SUBSCRIBE NOW.

Anna Jarvis embarked on a campaign for a national holiday recognizing mothers, She was inspired by her own mother, Ann Jarvis ...

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.

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, ...

Jarvis died in May 1907. Her daughter, Anna, who lived in Philadelphia, organized the first official Mother’s Day service in 1908 in memory of her mother.

Anna Jarvis was born in 1864 in West Virginia. She was one of her mother's more than 12 children -- though most died from diseases like measles. During the Civil War, Anna's mother, ...