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.