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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

A hundred years ago this month, the passage of the 19th Amendment granted women nationwide the right to vote, with Illinois being among the first states to vote on the amendment’s ratification. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...