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This Day in Boston History
February 1st, 1862
Julia Ward Howe
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On this day
- Atlantic Monthly published "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
by Julia Ward Howe.
A writer, poet and reformer Howe would became the first woman to be elected
to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She founded, with Lucy Stone
and others what would become the American Woman Suffrage Association.
She also worked for world peace, founding, in 1891, the American Friends
of Russian Freedom, and serving as president, in 1894, of the United Friends
of Armenia.
Howe's lifetime of championing causes of peace and equality are eclipsed
by her famous song. However, the song's theme which urges people to implement
the principles that they adhere to in this life, embodies her life's convictions.
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