temperance 
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SOURCE: Aeon
9/6/2022
Ken Burns Got "Prohibition" Wrong
by Mark Lawrence Schrad
Burns largely accepts an individualistic and libertarian narrative of prohibition as a misbegotten campaign of moral scolds, missing the reformist, egalitarian, and humane demands of the movement and the exploitative nature of the "liquor traffic" it sought to disrupt.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/1/2022
The Truth About Prohibition
by Mark Lawrence Schrad
American historians have often identified Prohibition with a coalition of social reformers, nativists and religious fundamentalists. Looking at the international temperance and prohibition movement tells a different story of a fight against exploitation of workers and minority groups through addiction.
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
10/14/2021
Manhood, Madness, and Moonshine
by Dillon Carroll
Today's concern for "deaths of despair" among white Americans isn't unprecedented; a wave of alcoholism and temperance advocacy after the Civil War highlighted the relationship between social unsettlement, substance abuse and social reformism.
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SOURCE: Time
1/16/19
The Surprisingly Complex Link Between Prohibition and Women’s Rights
One of Prohibition's legacies is how, a century before the MeToo movement, it succeeded in making issues that women cared about part of the national conversation.
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SOURCE: Politico
1/13/19
Why Do We Blame Women for Prohibition?
by Mark Lawrence Schrad
One hundred years later, it's time to challenge a long-held bias.
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