David Frum suggested in The Atlantic that the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion could go the way of the Prohibition movement. Frum’s Monday piece claimed, "Roe Is the New Prohibition," ...

Introduction -- "Distilled damnation" : temperance before 1880 -- "It is not enough that the church should be sober" : drying up the South, 1880-1915 -- "Why don't he ...

Women — liberal and conservative — were a driving force in the nationwide debate over drinking that led to Prohibition, America’s attempt a hundred years ago to ban the consumption of alcohol. The ...

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