An anti-alcohol vintage postcard from Patt Morrison's collection shows a progression from lemonade to the grave. Eighty-nine years ago this week, another of our long national nightmares was over. For ...
Frances Willard stands behind her mother, at left, and Anna B. Gordon, who worked as a secretary and lived in the Willard household. Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images As younger adults ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 1907, 20 women in Keedysville engaged with national events by forming their own Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, advocating against the consumption and sale of alcohol. By forming their own WCTU ...
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 ...
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 ...
NORMAL — The Normal Woman's Christian Temperance Union represented Illinois WCTU at the National 152nd WCTU Convention on Aug. 18 and the World 42nd Convention Aug. 19-23 at the DoubleTree by Hilton ...
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