A History of Mother's Day - Article written by Holly Hildebrand. Published in Houston Chronicle Interactive. www.chron.com/content/interactive/special/holidays/97/mom/history.html
Ancestry.com: How Mother's Day Began - Includes brief history of the observance and links to related sites. www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/mother.htm
Happy Mother's Day from Parent Soup - Provides history of the holiday, stories about giving birth, and people sharing their holiday memories. parentsplace.com/family/mothersday/gen/0,,12581,00.html
Julia Ward Howe - Mother's Day Proclamation www3.edgenet.net/fcarpenter/howe.html
Mother's Day and Peace - The story of Julia Ward Howe's initiation of a Mother's Day for Peace. womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa013100d.htm
Mother's Day History - Find the history of Mother's Day. womenshistory.about.com/cs/mothersday/index.htm