In 1842, a young Abe Lincoln gave a speech to the Springfield, IL, Temperance Union. The speech was delivered a little less than eighty years before Prohibition was passed, and Lincoln himself woul...

Willard was the President of the Women's Christian Temperance Union as well as the Women's Council. In the "Address of Frances E. Willard, president of the Woman's National Council of the United St...

Think of the Maine Law of 1851 as a prototype for the 18th Amendment. This is it, the first successful prohibition law in the United States: gaze upon it and tremble. The law prohibited the manufac...

Yep, he's the guy with the airport named after him in New York. He also thought Prohibition was a terrible idea and testified about it before the Senate in 1926. He probably had the best line about...