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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 ...
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 ...
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 third season of The Gilded Age has been mocking a historical movement, and its being very wrongheaded in its approach ...
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 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.
Decades before the 18th Amendment was ratified in 1919, the temperance movement sought to restrict alcohol on moral and religious grounds. The effort was headed by protestant Christian groups and ...
The church’s roots can be traced back to the temperance movement and its association with National Prohibition Park, a popular summer colony and temperance town established in 1887, which saw up ...