From Self-made Men to Crusading Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Self-made Men to Crusading Women write by Holly Berkley. This book was released on 2004. From Self-made Men to Crusading Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century
Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century write by Holly Berkley Fletcher. This book was released on 2007-12-12. Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through an examination of the two icons of the nineteenth century American temperance movement -- the self-made man and the crusading woman -- Fletcher demonstrates the evolving meaning and context of temperance and gender.
Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause
Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause write by Joe Coker. This book was released on 2007-12-14. Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the late 1800s, Southern evangelicals believed contemporary troubles—everything from poverty to political corruption to violence between African Americans and whites—sprang from the bottles of “demon rum” regularly consumed in the South. Though temperance quickly gained support in the antebellum North, Southerners cast a skeptical eye on the movement, because of its ties with antislavery efforts. Postwar evangelicals quickly realized they had to make temperance appealing to the South by transforming the Yankee moral reform movement into something compatible with southern values and culture. In Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement, Joe L. Coker examines the tactics and results of temperance reformers between 1880 and 1915. Though their denominations traditionally forbade the preaching of politics from the pulpit, an outgrowth of evangelical fervor led ministers and their congregations to sound the call for prohibition. Determined to save the South from the evils of alcohol, they played on southern cultural attitudes about politics, race, women, and honor to communicate their message. The evangelicals were successful in their approach, negotiating such political obstacles as public disapproval the church’s role in politics and vehement opposition to prohibition voiced by Jefferson Davis. The evangelical community successfully convinced the public that cheap liquor in the hands of African American “beasts” and drunkard husbands posed a serious threat to white women. Eventually, the code of honor that depended upon alcohol-centered hospitality and camaraderie was redefined to favor those who lived as Christians and supported the prohibition movement. Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause is the first comprehensive survey of temperance in the South. By tailoring the prohibition message to the unique context of the American South, southern evangelicals transformed the region into a hotbed of temperance activity, leading the national prohibition movement.
Gun Crusaders
Gun Crusaders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gun Crusaders write by Scott Melzer. This book was released on 2012-09-01. Gun Crusaders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Uses National Rifle Association materials, meetings, leader speeches, and interviews with NRA members to examine how the organization perceives threats to gun rights as an attack in a broad culture war that will ultimately lead to gun confiscation and socialism.
A Woman's Crusade
A Woman's Crusade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Woman's Crusade write by Mary Walton. This book was released on 2010-08-17. A Woman's Crusade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alice Paul began her life as a studious girl from a strict Quaker family in New Jersey. In 1907, a scholarship took her to England, where she developed a passionate devotion to the suffrage movement. Upon her return to the United States, Alice became the leader of the militant wing of the American suffrage movement. Calling themselves "Silent Sentinels," she and her followers were the first protestors to picket the White House. Arrested and jailed, they went on hunger strikes and were force-fed and brutalized. Years before Gandhi's campaign of nonviolent resistance, and decades before civil rights demonstrations, Alice Paul practiced peaceful civil disobedience in the pursuit of equal rights for women. With her daring and unconventional tactics, Alice Paul eventually succeeded in forcing President Woodrow Wilson and a reluctant U.S. Congress to pass the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote. Here at last is the inspiring story of the young woman whose dedication to women's rights made that long-held dream a reality.
