Sources & Further Reading

Mom Deserves More Than a Last-Minute Plan [May 2025]

• TIME – The Tenacious Woman Who Helped Deliver Mother’s Day to the U.S.

• Library of Congress – Today in History: Celebrating Mothers (May 9)

• History.com – Mother’s Day

• Women History Blog – Anna Jarvis

• NTHS.org – Why the Founder of Mother’s Day Hated What it Had Become (And what you can take away from that!)