After the Civil War, abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” organized a “Mother's Day for Peace” in New York City on June 2, 1872, to bring healing and reconciliation after the Civil War.
A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit filed by three Israeli hostages against the U.S.-based nonprofit People Media Project and its publication, the Palestine Chronicle, can proceed to trial.
