Millions of people trying to cut out alcohol for Dry January may not realise they are following in the footsteps of a 19th ...

Academics ague the temperance movements paved the way for sobriety trends like Dry January.

But these booze-free billiard venues, meeting rooms and music halls built in the 19th Century by those championing sobriety ...

A study looking at buildings left behind by the movement found examples in Devon and Cornwall.

This video is no longer available. D.C. is a town of monuments — and some of them are hiding in plain sight. In this week’s edition of “Matt About Town,” WTOP’s Matt Kaufax decided to learn the ...

(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 ...

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 ...

The Middleton-in-Teesdale fountain is featured in a new book, The Built Heritage of the Temperance Movement: The Way Out of Darkest England, published by Historic England and Liverpool University ...

Alice Hoover of Coshocton was born in Crawford County and her mother, Mildred Marshal Heft, was from Corning. Heft served with the Women's Temperance Christian Union and gave speeches in the 1930s at ...

For all its notorious stories of bootlegging gangsters, unground crime, speakeasy’s and the infamous Red-Light District, it’s no wonder how Terre Haute earned the moniker, “Sin City.” It’s easy to ...