The feminist movement addressed such issues, asserting the value of women’s economic labour and their rights. Estelle B. Freedman in her book No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of ...

A temperance movement has recently assumed shape in Jersey City, having for its object the reduction of the number of low groggeries now flourishing in that city, and especially designed to secure ...

Campbell played his last show with The Temperance Movement at Planet Rockstock in December 2019. “That last gig, I’m so fucking ashamed of it,” he told Classic Rock in 2021. “It was terrible.

By 1901 “Scientific Temperance Instruction” was a mandatory curriculum required by law and overseen by the WCTU in most public schools in the U.S. (something that would last for almost 50 years).

The temperance movement had a strong following in Aberdeen with one organisation having 10,000 members in the early 1840s. This 'drink map' of the city was published in 1872 .

Owens-Adair was born Feb. 8, 1840, in Van Buren County, Mo., the third of 11 children of Tom and Sarah Owens. Three years later, they traveled to Oregon in the first major wagon train, settling ...

The Granville Historical Society is presenting "Songs of the American Temperance Movement: 1865-1920," in a program on Feb. 29 at 7 p.m. at Seek-No-Further Cidery.

This phase of the temperance movement contributed to an estimated 75% decline in overall American drinking from 1830 to 1845. Ladies singing hymns in front of barrooms in aid of the temperance ...

"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 Gibson. "It was a self ...

The growth of modern Southampton began around 1840 with the arrival of the railway and the opening of the eastern docks, both of which brought many visitors to the town. People coming for a voyage ...