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 program will be presented by ...

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 ...

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. It was a self-help order where one “took the ...

In this lesson, students learn about the Temperance Movement and New York in the 1890s by watching an excerpt from the Bootlegger’s Notebook, investigation and examining period images, including ...

Notes: In this essay, James Kences traces the growth of the temperance movement in York that was part of a larger movement that led in 1851 to the Maine Law that prohibited the sale and manufacturer ...

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 ...

On December 3, 1887, noted prohibition leader Henry Clay Needham purchased Lyon’s Station, setting in motion a unique ...