Influential figures of Eau Claire’s history cross each other’s paths, as author Tulla Froyen reflects on her grandfather’s legacy. In a talk at L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, the ...

Eighty-nine years ago this week, another of our long national nightmares was over. For 13 luckless years, the United States of America went piously, officially “dry,” banning by constitutional ...

Members of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union gather in Weston in 1884. The drive for women’s suffrage split the temperance movement, with some women opposing gaining the right to vote. Courtesy ...

FREMONT - To set a personal example for American citizens, Rutherford and Lucy Hayes banned hard spirits from the White House as the temperance movement gained steam in the later 19th century. The ...

Some bands said their farewells, others we welcomed back with arms wide open. Check out who broke up and who reunited in 2024. England's Temperance Movement want to bring back blues rock; we caught up ...

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 ...

A new study has been published in a book exploring the architectural legacy of the Temperance movement. Temperance was a 19th Century social movement that looked to combat alcohol's devastating ...

Declining Anglo-Saxon birth rates made eugenicists obsessed with creating strong, healthy white babies. And temperance ...

Lompoc native Justin Charbonneau launched his Temperance Cellars brand in 2012 with a nod to the town being a temperance colony from 1874 through 1888, when it incorporated as a city. Credit: Laurie ...

“Never again will any political party ignore the protests of the church and the moral forces of the state.” –Wayne B. Wheeler, as quoted in Smithsonian, May 2010* The godfather of prohibition did not ...