Tag Archives: Temperance

The Points Interview: Lee Willis

Posted on May 2, 2012 by

Editor’s Note: The Points Interview returns for the twenty-fourth time, once again examining a chapter out of the history of alcohol.  Today, we talk with Lee Willis, author of Southern Prohibition: Race, Reform, and Public Life in Middle Florida, 1821-1920 … Continue reading →

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Anti Vice Returns

Posted on April 19, 2012 by

A group of about 50 scholars met in early April at the idyllic Centro Stefano Franscini Conference Center at Monte Verità, over-looking Lake Maggiore in Ascona, Switzerland, to explore the enticing  topic of Global Anti-Vice Activism in the late 19th … Continue reading →

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Another Round? Teetotal Pledges and World War One

Posted on April 3, 2012 by

Welcome to the first installment of guest blogger Henry Yeoman’s new series here on Points. Henry is a Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Leed’s School of Law, where he works on historical criminology and criminological theory, especially … Continue reading →

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In Search of the Drunken Native

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

In a March 3, 2012 New York Times article, “At Tribe’s Door, a Hub of Beer and Heartache,” reporter Timothy Williams provides yet another account of the terrible consequences associated with alcohol consumption among native Americans.  This article, which of … Continue reading →

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Dry Pushback Against Mann’s Alcoholism Movement and Robert King Merton’s Manifest and Latent Functions: A Perplexing Combination

Posted on November 17, 2011 by

  Cross’s church in Berkeley My thinking on this post started off in one direction and then suddenly veered into another direction entirely.  As you’ll see. My original plan was simply to recount a triangular correspondence involving Laurance L. Cross, Harry Emerson … Continue reading →

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Late Soviet-era Temperance: “With Joint Forces Against Drunkenness”

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

Editor’s Note: In our quest to bring the international dimensions of temperance and prohibition sentiment into view (a job that, as we have noted, Ken Burns’s recent documentary failed to do), Points this week presents the first in a series … Continue reading →

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The Points Interview: Scott Martin

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

The seventeenth entry in “The Points Interview” series features Scott Martin’s Devil of the Domestic Sphere: Temperance, Gender, and Middle-Class Ideology, 1800-1860 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2008; a paperback edition appeared in 2010).   Scott Martin is chair of the Department … Continue reading →

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Washington State’s Proposition 1183: Consumer Convenience or Culture and History?

Posted on October 6, 2011 by

Maggie and I have lived in Wallace, a hamlet in Idaho’s narrow northern panhandle, since 1997.  Though Wallace is much closer to Montana, to the east, than to Washington State, to the west, our local TV news and advertising comes … Continue reading →

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Burns and Novick’s Prohibition: Lantzer on Episode Three

Posted on October 5, 2011 by

Editors’ note: Prohibition, the documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, concluded last night.  We’re very pleased to bring Points readers a review of the third episode from historian Jason Lantzer (more on Jason here at the Guest Bloggers page).  … Continue reading →

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Burns and Novick’s Prohibition: Fahey on Episode One

Posted on October 3, 2011 by

Editors’ Note: Our first response to Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s Prohibition comes courtesy of noted alcohol and temperance historian David Fahey.  We’re grateful to him for sharing his thoughts on the “Nation of Drunkards” episode, and welcome your thoughts … Continue reading →

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