I was stunned when we read “Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Carroll County, Md.” The banner was for a women’s group — a group we could find a membership list for and a group to ...

Founded in 1874, in the midst of one of the deepest economic depressions in American history, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) quickly became the largest women’s organization in ...

Ever since the eighteenth amendment went into effect, we have been deluged with jokes about what the Women's Christian Temperance Union will prohibit next. 'We have been told that one thing after ...

The National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) will commemorate its 150th anniversary with a celebration Aug. 5-7 at the Berlin Grande Hotel. As the world’s oldest women’s ...