Stedman Hanks had two passions in life: stopping the twin evils of liquor and slavery. He lived long enough to see one...
America’s drinking habits were changing for the better as the new country passed its 50th anniversary, at least according to a Rhode...
New England towns have always had an interesting relationship with alcohol and temperance movements. Moonshining, rum-running to Canada and dry and wet...
A U.S. president had to sneak a drink and a Supreme Court justice tried to get out of going to the annual...
“My name’s John L. Sullivan and I can lick any son-of-a-bitch alive!” If you heard those words shouted out in the 1880s,...
Moses Dunbar was hanged in Hartford, Conn., on March 19, 1777 – and his father, it is believed, offered the hemp for...