Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition
This Brown University Digital webpage with primary documents, government documents and a variety of other resources. Use the Advanced Search area to take advantage of keyword search and data range searching.
Temperance & Prohibition
This Ohio State University Dept of History page covers a number of secondary documents. This essays may help you ground your arguments for your project.
For a Visual Look:
University of Washington’s Social Issues Photographs Digital Library
American Memory, Library of Congress
“Votes for Women”Selections from the Woman’s Suffrage Association Collection, 1948-1921
Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920.
National Women’s Party, Photographs from the Records of the National Women’s Party
The Library of Congress has an extensive collection of original texts which should help with the history of the suffrage movement. Use the Search key to target documents. The pictures collection can be used to visualize the people at the time.
ProQuest - for news articles
Choose Historical Newspapers for articles during the time period back to the 1850s! To get started, enter some search terms and click on More Search option and select Article and go!
JSTOR - Scholarly articles
Covers many political issues including prohibition.
Books & Encyclopedias
The Long thirst: prohibition in America, 1920-1933
Coffey, Thomas M.
Information Desk1 JHV5089. C66 1975
Evolution of probibition in the United States
Cherrington, Ernest Hurst
Information Desk1 HV5089. C43 1920
American Temperance Movements: Cycles of reform
Blocker, Jack S.
Information Desk1 HV5229. B55 1989
American Decades, 1920-1929
Good overviews for the period, may help put events into perspective.
Reference E169.12. A42
