April sees the return of the Grand National and the British media are always hungry to report on a particular spectacle – Ladies Day. For...

Editor’s Note: This is the third Points interview with authors from the Spring 2021 issue (vol. 35, no. 1) of ADHS’s journal Social...

Editor’s Note: Today we’re excited to feature a Points Interview with Dr. David Fahey, a long-time member—and an unofficial resident...

Editor’s Note: The Alcohol and Drugs History Society was saddened to learn of the death of Dr. Lilian Lewis Shiman earlier this year. In...

Editor’s Note: Today marks our last interview with an author from the newest issue of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. The...

Editor’s Note: Over the next few days we’re excited to bring you interviews with the authors of the newest issue of the Social History of...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Emily Hogg, an assistant professor in the Department for the Study of Culture at the University of...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Dr. Annemarie McAllister, Senior Research Fellow in History at the University of Central...

A pensive stone figure sits outside the National Archives Museum in Washington, D.C., atop a platform reading, “what is past is...

Note from Ron: Here is another tribute to the late Joe Gusfield, authored by Harry Gene Levine. It circulated via email among some of...

(Editor: Today’s post is from Points contributing editor Michelle McClellan.) It’s back-to-school time, and that means talking to college...

Anna Loan-Wilsey Anna Loan-Wilsey is currently at work on the third book in her Hattie Davish Mysteries historical fiction series, set in...

Celebratory drinking has fueled Fourth of July festivity from its inception in the years following 1776, when double rum-rations for the...

Note: Points’ managing editor, Eoin Cannon, favors us, today, with an interview on his just-out, new book, The Saloon and the Mission:...

Spending a quiet St. Patrick’s Day with my parents and, as many of us do at a certain age, shamelessly rifling their old personal...

With interests in heritage tourism and addiction history, I am always looking for intersections between the two. I found one unexpectedly...

Author’s Note: Washington State’s privatization of liquor sales in 2011 has stimulated renewed interest in this option in neighboring...

Editor’s Note: Australian Americanist, Ian Tyrrell, the last president of the Alcohol & Temperance History Group and the first president...

Editor’s Note: Does the lens of emotion bring into focus otherwise vague or unnoticed aspects of temperance campaigns? Guest blogger...

Editor’s Note: H. Paul Thompson’s book, A Most Stirring and Significant Episode: Religion and the Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Black...