Useful Links
History of the WCTU
https://www.wctu.org/history Women’s Christian Temperance Union Hatchet Protesters used prayers, hymns—and sometimes axes—to call attention to alcoholism https://womenshistory.si.edu/herstory/activism/object/womens-christian-temperance-union-hatchet |
Primary Sources
Primary resource archive- WCTU of Springfield, MA
http://ourpluralhistory.stcc.edu/resources/primary/WCTU%20sub%20page.dwt
Photographs of the Women’s Christian temperance Union
https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/volvoices%3A12118
Primary Source set: Women and the Temperance Movement
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/women-and-the-temperance-movement
Address before the Second Biennial Convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the Twentieth Annual Convention of the NWCTU (1893)
https://www.loc.gov/item/93838352/
http://ourpluralhistory.stcc.edu/resources/primary/WCTU%20sub%20page.dwt
Photographs of the Women’s Christian temperance Union
https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/volvoices%3A12118
Primary Source set: Women and the Temperance Movement
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/women-and-the-temperance-movement
Address before the Second Biennial Convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the Twentieth Annual Convention of the NWCTU (1893)
https://www.loc.gov/item/93838352/
Classroom Resources
In this lesson, students learn about the Temperance Movement and New York in the 1890s by watching an excerpt from the Bootlegger’s Notebook, investigation and examining period images, including political cartoons, posters and illustrations. Students then debate the merits of the Temperance Movement and reflect on how historians use period images to reconstruct the past.
https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/educators/lessonplan/using-primary-sources-a-wide-open-town/
https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/educators/lessonplan/using-primary-sources-a-wide-open-town/
Carrie Nation
Biographies
https://historicmissourians.shsmo.org/carry-nation https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/carry-a-nation/15502 Photographs of Carrie Nation https://www.kansasmemory.org/locate.php?categories=1245-4805& A 1901 photograph of Carrie (Carry) Nation with a hatchet and a Bible. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/women-and-the-temperance-movement/sources/1785 Selected Articles about Carrie Nation https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-carrie-nation/selected-articles |
Francis Willard
Biography+ Recommended Readings
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/willard-frances-elizabeth-caroline-1839-1898-leader-of-wctu/ Short Biography https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/frances-e-willard/ Primary sources: Francis Willard and the WCTU https://primarysourcenexus.org/2016/03/primary-source-spotlight-frances-willard-the-wctu/ An 1893 address to the World’s Woman’s Temperance Union by Frances Willard, president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/women-and-the-temperance-movement/sources/1783 Francis Willard Journals https://willard.historyit.com/public-sites/featured-collection/transcripts?hsxezn=kezfcv Educational resources https://franceswillardhouse.org/educators/ |