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Sarah Josepha Hale
In celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday, the National Women’s History Museum has released, “A History of Thanksgiving,” a short video that explores the origins of the festival and the special role that Sarah Josepha Hale, the “Mother of Thanksgiving,” played in establishing the holiday.
It is a little known, but nonetheless significant fact that Thanksgiving, a national day of shared acknowledgement and gratitude for the blessings …

Though The New Agenda supports the establishment of a National Women’s History Museum, this post was written by and represents the opinions of NWHM. In a future post, we will provide more information about the legislation to which this post refers, and on how The New Agenda is supporting it.
Much of women’s history is missing from our public story. One more example — women were almost entirely responsible for the recognition of Memorial Day. Its origin was the Civil War and until recently, the day focused on the terrible War …