THE TEMPERANCE movement in the United States began in earnest in 1826 with the founding of the American Temperance Society. Its goal was to diminish the harm caused by the overconsumption of alcohol ...

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 ...

WITH THE EMERGENCE of a national temperance movement in the 1820s, Rochester residents who were concerned about the ill-effects of drunkenness found a voice in their community. They began speaking out ...

For all its notorious stories of bootlegging gangsters, unground crime, speakeasy’s and the infamous Red-Light District, it’s no wonder how Terre Haute earned the moniker, “Sin City.” It’s easy to ...

Explore the life of Eliza Peterson, a leader in the African American woman’s temperance movement. Eliza Peterson was a Texas and national leader in the woman’s temperance movement and suffrage ...

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Agnes Kemp sought equal rights for women. In their travels, these 19th-century figures lectured about abolition, temperance and women’s suffrage to a variety of ...

An ancient social movement that is largely forgotten comes into its own every year thanks to Dry January. A Temperance Movement building in Derby where like-minded people used to gather over a hundred ...