A digital temperance movement would seek to eliminate from our lives all the addictive technologies and platforms that stoke ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of people give up alcohol every January, but in the 1830s temperance created a "parallel existence" for non drinkers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WITH THE EMERGENCE of a national temperance movement in the 1820s, Rochester residents who were concerned about the ill-effects of drunkenness found a voice in their community. They began speaking out ...

CHARLEVOIX — One hundred and fifty years ago, the May 16, 1874 Charlevoix Sentinel reported that “The cable across the Straits has been repaired.” A cable across the Straits of Mackinac? A quick ...

Millions of people trying to cut out alcohol for Dry January may not realise they are following in the footsteps of a 19th Century social movement that began in the mills of West Yorkshire. Starting ...