Mother's Day was not originally a sentimental holiday to honor individual mothers, but a radical, peace-driven political movement founded by Julia Ward Howe in 1870 as a response to the horrors of war and women’s exclusion from power. The episode reveals how the holiday’s forgotten origin
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