Hmmm.  Did you count Catherine Gilbert Murdock's wonderful 1998 book,
_Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940_ as
being "about the WCTU"?  It is, in part.  Doubtless the continuing
flourishing of gender studies has changed the place and significance of the
WCTU in historical scholarship -- perhaps making the movement more "a part"
of other stories than "a story" in and of itself.  Ron Roizen
UCSF

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From: David Fahey <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: WCTU in USA
Date: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 10:23 AM

Back in early/mid-1980s several academic books were published about the
WCTU in the USA.  Since then I think there haven't been any.  Two
questions: (1) do I have my facts right? (2) why the decline of interest by
historians in the WCTU in the USA (at least as measured by book
publication)?


David M. Fahey, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio <[log in to unmask]>