New York Times, 17 Jan. 2020.
Temperance crusaders weren’t crackpots. They were fighting the business of making money off addiction.
By Mark Lawrence Schrad
Dr. Schrad (Villanova) is the author of a forthcoming book about the global history of prohibition.
Thank you to Scott Haine for the tip about this op-ed/
A tweet by Elizabeth Bruenig prompted Olga Khazan to write an article for the Atlantic (14 Jan. 2020), “America’s Favorite Poison: What Happened to the Anti-Alcohol Movement?” In turn, it inspired Noah Rothman to write a critique, “The Temperance Movement Reborn” for Commentary (15 Jan. 2020).
Charlotte Adcock, “Last Orders: The Decline of the Traditional Public House” (M.A. Conservation Studies, Department of Archaeology, University of York, 2018).
“Fifty Years of Temperance Campaigning in Cambridge,” Part 1.
Based on Cambridge Independent Press, 18 Oct. 1907.
Peter Andreas, Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Mark Hailwood, “Historical Perspectives,” in Sage Handbook of Alcohol and Drug Studies (2017), ed. Torsten Koland, Geoffrey Hunt, and Betsy Thom. Many libraries have the Sage Handbook online.
