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 ...

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 TEMPERANCE movement in the United States began in earnest in 1826 with the founding of the American Temperance Society. Its goal was to diminish the harm caused by the overconsumption of alcohol ...

"The Drunkard's Progress" shows how temperance advocates wanted to position alcohol consumption: as a choice leading, inevitably, to ruin and death. Nathaniel Currier/Library of Congress On this day ...

Americans who have already made it to the polls this Tuesday may have seen Hillary Clinton supporters dressed in white — or at the very least, seen photos of these women on their Facebook and Twitter ...

(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 ...