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The third season of The Gilded Age has been mocking a historical movement, and its being very wrongheaded in its approach ...
The Gilded Age Season 3 premiere shows us just how much has changed in the Van Rhijn house since the dramatic revelations of Season 2. Fans of the HBO hit will recall that Oscar Van Rhijn (Blake ...
When DECIDER caught up with The Gilded Age cast a few weeks ago, we asked Cynthia Nixon how much of Ada’s insistence on the ...
The temperance movement put drunkenness at the core of these domestic crises, as a menace to the American home and family; if men would stop drinking, or stop drinking so much, then the violence ...
Established history tells us that the temperance movement was driven by white evangelicals set out to discipline America’s Black and immigrant communities. Established history is wrong.
By the mid-1800s, the temperance movement had been greatly successful. By one estimate, Americans managed to cut their liquor consumption by two-thirds in the years between the Revolution and the ...
A temperance movement has recently assumed shape in Jersey City, having for its object the reduction of the number of low groggeries now flourishing in that city, ...
It was the temperance movement of the 19th and early 20th century, after all, that served as a catalyst for the women’s suffrage movement. It could do the same today for the #MeToo movement.
The temperance movement’s increasing stridency was, perhaps, understandable. Heavy drinking had been common in Vermont from its earliest days. In 1785, ...
Tickets available at www.slimstickets.comEver since Jimi Hendrix gatecrashed London and Led Zeppelin were "Going To California" there's been a trans-Atlantic cr ...