Mother’s Day ain’t what it used to be. The family of Anna Jarvis, the holiday’s founder, are following in their ancestor’s ...

Jarvis spent the majority of her personal wealth on legal fees and lawsuits against companies using “Mother‘s Day” in ...

Two years after her mother's death, Anna wanted a day to honor the women who play an instrumental role in their children's ...

With Mother’s Day taking place this Sunday, Executive Director of the Anna Jarvis House in Grafton spoke with us about the ...

Mother's Day is celebrated across the world on the second Sunday of May, a tradition established by Anna Jarvis to honor the ...

Mother's Day is this weekend, and its roots are likely deeper than you think. Here's how generations of women shaped the U.S.

Good intentions don’t guarantee desirable outcomes. For example, in 1910, three years following her mother’s death, Anna Jarvis began the observance of Mother’s Day in Grafton, WV. Jarvis planned a ...

In all the years since Woodrow Wilson signed the Mother’s Day Proclamation on May 9, 1914, phone calls to moms have always ...

Suffragist and writer Julia Ward Howe first suggested the idea of Mother’s Day in the United States in 1872. Howe was a ...

Anna Jarvis spearheaded the effort to make Mother's Day a national holiday, she later grew to despise the holiday for being ...