View of Willard’s Hotel as it looked in Julia Ward Howe’s time
This file appears in: Women in History DowntownDC Callbox Tour: Julia Ward Howe: Writer and Activist, 1819-1910
Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
This file appears in: Women in History DowntownDC Callbox Tour: Julia Ward Howe: Writer and Activist, 1819-1910
Women in History DowntownDC Callbox Tour: Julia Ward Howe: Writer and Activist, 1819-1910
Julia Ward Howe was a poet, author, composer, abolitionist, suffragist and more—but she is most remembered for writing the lyrics to “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Born in New York City in 1819,…