Eighty-nine years ago this week, another of our long national nightmares was over. For 13 luckless years, the United States of America went piously, officially “dry,” banning by constitutional ...

So what’s the first thing Aunt Ada does to ruffle Aunt Agnes’s feathers? She hosts a temperance fundraiser in the house. The temperance movement, of course, fought for alcohol to be outlawed from ...

In 1907, 20 women in Keedysville engaged with national events by forming their own Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, advocating against the consumption and sale of alcohol. By forming their own WCTU ...

“Today, we had a good parade of the Sons of Temperance at Laurel,” Sussex County native William Morgan (no relation to the author) wrote in his diary on May 17, 1848, “the [reviewing] stand 35 by 10 ...

FREMONT - To set a personal example for American citizens, Rutherford and Lucy Hayes banned hard spirits from the White House as the temperance movement gained steam in the later 19th century. The ...

Members of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union gather in Weston in 1884. The drive for women’s suffrage split the temperance movement, with some women opposing gaining the right to vote. Courtesy ...

The enormous success of the temperance movement among native-born American women between 1874 and 1900 entwined the destiny of the suffrage movement with the temperance movement during the last ...

An anti-alcohol vintage postcard from Patt Morrison's collection shows a progression from lemonade to the grave. Eighty-nine years ago this week, another of our long national nightmares was over. For ...