In 1830, as the temperance movement was finding its voice, drinking-age Americans, mostly men, were knocking back about seven gallons of liquor every year — about three times as much as today ...

Edward Cornelius Delavan (1793-1871): Hotel owner, wine importer, temperance movement leader Section 53, Lot 10 By Paul Grondahl , Columnist Updated Dec 5, 2013 8:49 a.m.

The story of the rise, rule, and fall of prohibition and the entire era it encompassed. Learn more about the temperance movement and more on this page.

That's exactly what one infamous temperance movement leader, nicknamed "Hatchet Granny," did to break up drinking establishments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An editorial cartoon of ...

The temperance people of Long Island have caught the fever, and "praying bands" and temperance societies are being organized on every hand. A short time since the ladies of the Blue Point Division ...

“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… ...

The name of the new movement was temperance, not abstinence. ‘Strong spirits’ were the enemy, not beer. It was a mammoth task. The drinking habits of the Scots had international notoriety.

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.

The NATIONAL WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1874. The initial purpose of the WCTU was to promote abstinence from alcohol, which they protested with pray-ins at ...

BOSTON, Feb. 2.--A new temperance movement--that of visiting bar-rooms by a band of praying men and women, in imitation of what is said to be the practice in some Western localities--was started ...