After successfully advocating for designation of a national Mother's Day to honor her mom, Anna Jarvis fought its ...

Jarvis set out to establish Mother’s Day after the death of her own mother, whose dream it was to see such a holiday become a ...

Mother’s Day has been observed for more than 100 years as a celebration of moms across the U.S. and even overseas. It was ...

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

You can go back to the 1800s and catch a glimpse of Anna Jarvis’s life anytime the museum is open for a price of five dollars.

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

The real history of Mother's Day is fraught with resentment and tragedy as its founder, Anna Jarvis, would eventually come to campaign against the holiday for the rest of her life. ArtBackground ...

However, it was Jarvis’ daughter, Anna, who would go on to campaign for the adoption of Mother’s Day as a national holiday. Although the younger Jarvis’ vision stood in stark contrast with ...

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 ...