Jason S. Lantzer is Assistant Director of the Butler University Honors Program. This interview is based on his new book, “Prohibition Is Here to Stay”: The Reverend Edward S. Shumaker and the Dry Crusade in America (University of Notre Dame […]
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The lost social justice ethic of the temperance movement
This essay is cross-posted from the Anxious Bench. When even the most conservative of American evangelicals started drinking alcohol, they lost their movement’s philosophical foundation for social justice. That’s an overly simplistic statement, but what I mean by that is […]
The Author’s Corner with Kirsten Wood
Kirsten Wood is Associate Professor of History at Florida International University. This interview is based on her new book, Accommodating the Republic: Taverns in the Early United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write […]
The Author’s Corner with Megan Bever
Megan Bever is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Social Sciences Department at Missouri Southern State University. This interview is based on her new book, At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War […]
The Author’s Corner with Brendan J. J. Payne
Brendan J. J. Payne is Assistant Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at North Greenville University. This interview is based on his new book, Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow: Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and […]