The prominent role that Quakers played in calling and attending the 1848 Seneca Falls meeting on women’s rights is an example of the importance of members of the Religious Society of Friends in ...

(The Conversation) — A historian highlights the role of Frances Willard, who helped found the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, one of the major social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. (The ...

Religion in Western New York’s “Burned-Over District” fired reform movements in the 1800s. Religion and reform were synonymous in 19th century Western New York. This video features extended interview ...

P. Gabrielle Foreman is a literary historian and specialist on race and nineteenth-century reform movements. She is the author of dozens of articles and reviews, the editor or author of several books ...

This past Tuesday, Americans marked 100 years since Congress passed the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote. As Susan Schulten documented in a New York Times article, it was a long ...

One evening in 1890, Sam Johnson, a lanky Confederate veteran with dark hair and a friendly demeanor, attended a meeting of the Gillespie County Farmers’ Alliance in Fredericksburg. The 51-year-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frances Willard stands behind her mother, at left, and Anna B. Gordon, who worked as a secretary and lived in the Willard ...

As younger adults opt for “wellness” products, many are practicing alcohol abstinence. Sometimes referred to as “sober curious,” this trend of often forgoing alcohol has forged public conversations on ...