The Gilded Age Season 3 premiere shows us just how much has changed in the Van Rhijn house since the dramatic revelations of Season 2. Fans of the HBO hit will recall that Oscar Van Rhijn (Blake ...

The temperance movement put drunkenness at the core of these domestic crises, as a menace to the American home and family; if men would stop drinking, or stop drinking so much, then the violence ...

When DECIDER caught up with The Gilded Age cast a few weeks ago, we asked Cynthia Nixon how much of Ada’s insistence on the ...

PHILADELPHIA, March 4. The temperance women have inaugurated their new departure, having seemingly abandoned the bar-room crusade movement. To-day a number of prayer-meetings were held in various ...

The women's temperance movement, which started last December at Washington, Fayette County, Ohio, and which was prompted and planned by Dio Lewis, has now grown and spread until the attention of ...

By the mid-1800s, the temperance movement had been greatly successful. By one estimate, Americans managed to cut their liquor consumption by two-thirds in the years between the Revolution and the ...

“Adna Hecox, who preached the first Protestant sermon in California, was living in Soquel when he established the state’s first Temperance Society in 1847,” writes Ross Eric Gibso… ...