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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An anti-alcohol vintage postcard from Patt Morrison's collection shows a progression from lemonade to the grave. Eighty-nine years ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially took hold on Jan. 17, 1920, a victory for the nation’s temperance movement, plunging the nation into Prohibition. The ...

After 1785 when Dr. Benjamin Rush, the United States' leading physician at the time, published "An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind," the temperance movement ...

As younger adults opt for “wellness” products, many are practicing alcohol abstinence. Sometimes referred to as “sober curious,” this trend of often forgoing alcohol has forged public conversations on ...

Banning alcohol at the urging of temperance movement had varied results, mostly bad By David Crary | Associated Press NEW YORK — In this era of bottomless mimosas, craft beers and ever-present happy ...

A new book reenvisions temperance as a global struggle on behalf of the oppressed and exploited. That’s what the true villains of the story would want you to think, or so Mark Lawrence Schrad argues ...

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(The Conversation) — A historian highlights the role of Frances Willard, who helped found the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, one of the major social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. (The ...