The original temperance movement’s end result—Prohibition ... the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. When you buy a book using a link on this page, we receive a commission.

With “Firebrands,” Gioia Diliberto, the author of several books on women’s lives and ... “moral Napoleon” of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Boole never let the facts cramp ...

Focus on personal choice makes the sober-curious movement quite different from temperance movements of the past. As Elva Ramirez writes in her 2021 book “Zero Proof: 90 Non-Alcoholic Recipes for ...

This book is separated into four parts ... human combustion spreads - some of that was tied up with the temperance movement, right? PEDERSEN: So scientists isolate oxygen for the first time ...

Tavern account books confirm that some customers drank ... Ladies singing hymns in front of barrooms in aid of the temperance movement. Sketch by S.B. Morton, 1874.Bettmann Archive/Getty Images ...

Two years after its founding, Abraham Lincoln spoke at an 1842 Good Templars meeting and said the capacity of man to govern himself is proven in the Temperance movement, which breaks the bonds of ...

The temperance movement was not confined to the U.S. In ... Willard described her mastery of bicycle riding in a popular book published in 1895. Willard’s Methodist faith shaped her reform ...

That's exactly what one infamous temperance movement leader ... according to Deborah G. Felder's book "A Century of Women: The Most Influential Events in 20th Century Women's History." ...

That was called the temperance movement — temperance, which could mean both moderation in drinking or a complete teetotaling ban. America’s Prohibition chose the latter. It emerged in part ...

The NATIONAL WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1874. The initial purpose of the WCTU was to promote abstinence from alcohol, which they protested with pray-ins at ...