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 ...

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, ...

The temperance movement was not confined to the U.S. In 1884, Willard inaugurated the World’s WCTU. This organization formed WCTU chapters in over 40 countries including Sweden, Japan and Australia.

We know about the chaos of Prohibition — gangsters and corruption galore. But the movement that brought it about is less well known.

(The Conversation) — A historian highlights the role of Frances Willard, who helped found the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, one of the major social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.