Negative Space: temperance
- Against the Flowing Tide: Whiskey and Temperance in the Making of Modern Ireland
- George Bretherton follows the growth of temperance in Ireland, both among protestants and Catholics.
- Capitalism, Religion, and Reform: The Social History of Temperance in Harvey, Illinois
- Ray Hutchison writes about the “conflicts between divergent subcultures in American society” that would eventually result in prohibition. Temperance communities may have been about keeping alcohol out, or they may have been about keeping Eastern Europeans out.
- From Fasting to Abstinence: The Origins of the American Temperance Movement
- Joel Bernard writes about the “cranky fad” of enforced temperance: how it came to be so popular. Racism, of course, figured strongly.
- The War Against Demon Rum
- Robert Maddox, of Pennsylvania State Unversity, writes this article about the rise of a more forceful persuasion when it became obvious that man could not be persuaded to avoid drink. Temperance became a code-word for prohibition. This article may have previously appeared in American History Illustrated.
- Women and Temperance in International Perspective: The World’s WTCU, 1880s-1920s
- Ian Tyrrell’s history of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union indicates that they used fear of foreigners—or tried to—to build their organization into an international force.
