Joseph Livesey, who became known as the 'John the Baptist of Teetotalism', founded the Preston Temperance Movement in 1832 ...

A town whose inn was famously called "the pub without beer" features in a new book about buildings in the temperance movement ...

But these booze-free billiard venues, meeting rooms and music halls built in the 19th Century by those championing sobriety ...

Two buildings in Cornwall, the Teetotal Hall in Penryn and the former Lamb Coffee Tavern in Redruth, and two buildings in ...

Alice Hoover of Coshocton was born in Crawford County and her mother, Mildred Marshal Heft, was from Corning. Heft served with the Women's Temperance Christian Union and gave speeches in the 1930s at ...

The Granville Historical Society is presenting "Songs of the American Temperance Movement: 1865-1920," in a program on Feb. 29 at 7 p.m. at Seek-No-Further Cidery. The program will be presented by ...

The Middleton-in-Teesdale fountain is featured in a new book, The Built Heritage of the Temperance Movement: The Way Out of Darkest England, published by Historic England and Liverpool University ...

Adna Hecox, who preached the first Protestant sermon in California, was living in Soquel when he established the state’s first Temperance Society in 1847. It was a self-help order where one “took the ...

This video is no longer available. D.C. is a town of monuments — and some of them are hiding in plain sight. In this week’s edition of “Matt About Town,” WTOP’s Matt Kaufax decided to learn the ...

WITH THE EMERGENCE of a national temperance movement in the 1820s, Rochester residents who were concerned about the ill-effects of drunkenness found a voice in their community. They began speaking out ...