Decades of temperance activism led to passage of Prohibition 100 years ago
All the tumult of 2020 makes it easy to forget that it is a huge anniversary in the history of…
World War I played key role in passage of Prohibition
In January 1919, Albert Von Tinzler and Edward Laska published “The Alcoholic Blues,” a song describing the feelings of a…
Temperance vs. individual liberty
In 1826, a century before Prohibition, Presbyterian minister Lyman Beecher wrote, “No sin has fewer apologies than intemperance.” Beecher founded…