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 ...
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 ...
BLOOMINGTON — The Illinois Woman's Christian Temperance Union and its local branch, the Normal WCTU, are celebrating a big anniversary this weekend, having continuously served the state and community ...
The 950 women and 37 of their husbands who gathered in the banquet room of the Sheraton-Palace Hotel did their best to ignore what they insisted was the reek of whisky seeping through the glass doors ...
The WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION CONVENTION in Cleveland 18-20 Nov. 1874 institutionalized TEMPERANCE as a social movement, marking the formal organization of the national Woman's Christian ...
Bill Scher is a contributing editor to Politico Magazine, and co-host of the Bloggingheads.tv show “The DMZ.” With Brett Kavanaugh, and the dark cloud permanently fixed above his head, on the Supreme ...
Editor's note: In honor of Women's History Month, the Press is profiling Caroline Brown Buell of East Hampton this week and Vivien Kellems of East Haddam March 14. Both women were well-known in their ...
PORTLAND, Maine - The mansion that serves as Maine headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union lay largely fallow until recently, with drug needles, liquor bottles and pornographic ...
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