Category: Prohibition
Main Pages
- National Prohibition of Alcohol & Repeal: Facts, Information & Resources
- National Prohibition of Alcohol in the U.S.
- Puritans to Prohibition
- The Evidence for Prohibition
- Prohibition: the Noble Experiment
- Temperance Movement Groups and Leaders in the U.S.
Repeal
- Repeal of National Prohibition
- Repeal of Prohibition
- Repeal Organizations
- New Temperance Movement Needed
- Restoring Prohibition, Drip by Drip
Other
- Prohibition: The Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
- Prohibition Era Dry Laws in New York State
- National Prohibition Act
- The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Alcohol, & Prohibition
- Bone Dry Laws
- Alcohol Prohibition in Pakistan is Promoting Major Drug Problems Say Politicians
- County Went “Wet”: Tax Revenues Increased but Not Crime
- Should We Prohibit Use of Alcohol by Adults and Others Under Age 21 in Religious Services?
- The Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement
Neo-Prohibition
- Alcohol Justice: New Name of Marin Institute
- Back door to Prohibition: The New War on Social Drinking
- Federal Agencies: Temperance Approach toward Alcohol
- Prohibition was a Success
- Was Prohibition Really a Success?
- Drunkenness, not Alcohol, is the Problem
- Restricting Alcohol Isn’t Preventing Problems
- Alcohol Blue Laws (Laws Prohibiting Sunday Sales of Alcoholic Beverages)
- Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
- Alcohol Policy Conference on Reducing Alcohol-Related Problems
- Coalition for the Prevention of Alcohol Problems
- Sunday Alcohol Sales
- Blue Laws
- Temperance Tactics in Louisiana
- Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and Prohibition
- Alcohol, Gambling and Henry Wechsler
- Bootlegging in Texas
- Marin Institute Criticizes Brewer’s Hurricane Charitable Relief Efforts
- Alcohol Prohibition Continues
- Wet / Dry Alcoholic Beverage Sales Election in Texas
- Colorado Drops Blue Law Prohibition Against Sunday Liquor Sales
- Arkansas Repeals Blue Law Banning Liquor Sales at Package Stores on Sundays
Appendix
Readings
- Aaron, Paul, and Musto, David. Temperance and Prohibition in America: An Historical Overview. In: Moore, Mark H., and Gerstein, Dean R. (eds.) Alcohol and Public Policy: Beyond the Shadow of Prohibition. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1981. pp. 127-181.
- Anti-Saloon League of America. Anti-Saloon League of America Yearbook. Westervile OH: American Issue Press, 1920, p. 28. Cited by Mulford, Harold A. Alcohol and Alcoholism in Iowa, 1965. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa, 1965, p. 9.
- Asbury, Herbert. The Great Illusion: An Informal History of Prohibition. New York: Greenwood Press, 1968 (Originally published 1950).
- Bader, Robert S. Prohibition in Kansas: A History. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1986.
- Baldy, Marian W. The University Wine Course: A Wine Appreciation Text and Self Tutorial. San Francisco, CA: Wine Appreciation Guild, 1993.
- Beauchamp, Dan E. Alcohol-Abuse Prevention Through Beverage and Environmental Regulation: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going. In: Holder, Harold D, (ed.) Advances in Substance Abuse: Behavioral and Biological Research Supplement 1, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1987. pp. 53-63.
- Billings, John S. Physiological Aspects of the Liquor Problem: Investigations Made by and Under the Direction of John 0. Atwater, John S. Billings and Others. Sub-Committee of the Committee of Fifty to Investigate the Liquor Problem. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1903.
- Blocker, Jr., Jack S. Retreat from Reform. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976.
- Blocker, Jr., Jack S. "Give to the Winds thy Fear": The Women's Temperance Crusade, 1873-1874. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.
- Blocker, Jr., Jack S. American Temperance Movements: Cycles of Reform. Boston, MA: Twayne,1989.
- Bordin, Ruth. Woman and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty, 1873-1900. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1981.
- Cahalan, Don. Why does the alcoholism field act like a ship of fools? British Journal of Addiction, 1979, 74, 235-238.
- Cashman, Sean D. Prohibition: The Lie of the Land. New York: Free Press, 1981.
- Cherrington, Ernest H. The Evolution of Prohibition in the United States of America. Westerville, OH: American Issue Press, 1920.
- Childs, Randolph W. Making Repeal Work. Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Alcoholic Beverage Study, Inc., 1947.
- Clark, N. H. Deliver Us From Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition. New York: Norton, 1976.
- Conroy, D. W. Puritans and Tavern: Law and Popular Culture in Colonial Massachusetts, 1630-1720. Paper presented at the Conference on the Social History of Alcohol: Drinking and Culture and Modem Society. Berkeley, CA., 1984. Cited by Prendergast, Michael L. A History of Alcohol Problem Prevention Efforts in the United States. In: Holder, Harold D. (ed.) Control Issues in Alcohol Abuse Prevention: Strategies for States and Communities. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1987, p. 27.
- Cowan, Richard. How the narcs created crack. National Review, 1986, 38, pp. 26-28, 30-31.
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- Engs, Ruth C. Resurgence of a new "clean living" movement in the United States. Journal of School Health, 1991, 61, 155-159.
- Erickson, Judith B. Making King Alcohol tremble. The juvenile work of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1900. Journal of Drug Education, 1988, 18, 333-352.
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- Feldman, Herman. Prohibition: Its Economic and Industrial Aspects. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1928.
- Flanders, Jessie K. Legislative Control of the Elementary Curriculum. New York: Teachers College, 1925.
- Ford, Gene. The Benefits of Moderate Drinking: Alcohol, Health and Society. San Francisco, CA: Wine Appreciation Guild, 1988.
- Furnas, J. C. The Life and Times of the Late Demon Rum. New York: G. P. Pumam's Sons, 1965.
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- Gruber, Max. Race Welfare. Westerville, OH: American Issue Press, 1910.
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- Hanson, David J. Preventing Alcohol Abuse: Alcohol, Culture, and Control. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995.
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- Hofstader, Richard. The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R.. New York: Vintage, 1965.
- Hunt, Mary H. A History of the First Decade of the Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction in Schools and Colleges. Boston, MA: Washington Press, 1892.
- Hunt, Mary H. An Epoch of the Nineteenth Century: An Outline of the Work for Scientific Temperance Education in the Public Schools of the United States. Boston, MA: Foster, 1897
- Isaac, Paul E. Prohibition and Politics: Turbulent Decades in Tennessee, 1885-1920. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1965.
- Kerr, K. Austin. Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the Anti-Saloon League. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985.
- Kobler,John. Ardent Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.
- Krout.JohnA. The Origins of Prohibition. New York: Knopf, 1925.
- Kyvig, David E. Repealing National Prohibition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
- Lee, Alfred M. Techniques of social reform: An analysis of the New Prohibition Drive. American Sociological Review, 1944, 9, 65-77. Reprinted as the New Prohibition Drive. In: McCarthy, Raymond G. (ed.) Drinking and Intoxication: Selected Readings in Social Attitudes and Controls. New Haven, CT: College and University Press, 1959. pp. 412-428.
- Lender, Mark E., and Martin, James K. Drinking in America: A History. New York: The Free Press, 1982.
- Levine, Harry. The birth of American alcohol control: Prohibition, the lawlessness. Contemporary Drug Problems, 1985, 12, 63-115.
- Lotterhos, J. F., Glover, E. D., Holbert, D., and Bames, R. C. Intentionality of college students regarding North Carolina's 21 -year drinking age law. International Journal of Addiction, 1988, 23, 629-647.
- MacAndrew, Craig, and Edgerton, Robert B. Drunken Comportment: A Social Explanation. Chicago, IL: Aldine, 1969.
- McCarthy, Raymond G., and Douglass, Edgar M. Alcohol and Social Responsibility: A New Educational Approach. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Yale Plan Clinic, 1949.
- McConnell, D. W. Temperance Movements. In: Seligman, Edwin R. A., and Johnson, Alvin (eds.) Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. New York, NY: The Macmillan Co., 1963.
- Marshall, Mac (ed.) Beliefs, Behaviors, & Alcoholic Beverages: A Cross-Cultural Survey. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1979.
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- Merz, Charles. The Dry Decade. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1969. (Contains a new introduction by the author. Originally published in 1930.) A Methodist editor. The American Issue, 1970 (January) quoted by Kobler, John. Ardent Spirits. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.
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- Mulford, Harold A. The Epidemiology of Alcoholism and Its Implications. In: Pattison, E. Mansell, and Kaufman, Edward (eds.) Encyclopedic Handbook of Alcoholism. New York: Gardner Press, 1982. pp. 441-457.
- Nietz, John A. Old Textbooks: Spelling, Grammar, Reading, Arithmetic, Geography, American History, Civil Government, Physiology, Penmanship, Art, Music—Taught in the Common Schools From Colonial Days to 1900. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1961.
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- Ohles, John F. The imprimatur of Mary H. H. Hunt. Journal of School Health, WS, 1978, 48, 477-478.
- Ormond, Chart. Temperance Education in American Public Schools. Westerville, OH: American Issue Press, 1929
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- Ploetz, Alfred J. The Influence of Alcohol Upon the Race. Westerville, OH: American Issue Press, 1915.
- Pollard, Joseph P. The Road to Repeal: Submission to Conventions. New York: Brentano's , 1932, p. 107. Cited by Sinclair, Andrew. Prohibition: The Era of Excess. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1962, p. 110.
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