The ADHS has two sessions (listed under the old ATHG name) at the
American Historical Association conference in Seattle in January 2005.

Friday, January 7, 9:30

New Perspectives on the Politics of Alcohol Regulation: from
Prohibition to Consumption Restrictions to Marketing Limitations

chair and comment: William J. Rorabaugh, University of Washington

Writing Prohibition in the Soil: Harriman, Tennessee, and the
Prohibition Party's New Approaches to Political Organization,
1890-1905, by Lisa Andersen, University of Chicago

A Saloon by Any Other Name: Ethnic Clubs and Liquor Control in Ontario,
1927-44, by Dan Malleck, Brock Univeristy

The New Temperance: the 1970s and 1980s Campaigns to Restrict Alcohol
Marketing, by Pam Pennock, University of Michigan at Dearborn

Friday, January 7, 2:30

A Complex Dialectic: Degradation and Agency in Alcohol Treatments

chair: Bud Burkhard, University of Maryland University College

Displays of Degradation and Figures of Womanhood: The Washingtonians in
Philadelphia, 1841-45

Theories of Agency in the Treatment of Inebriates: Moral Suasion versus
Moral Therapy in the Market Society of Gilded Age America, by Katherine
A. Chavigny, Sweet Briar College

"He is an Excellent Doctor if Called When Sober": American Physicians
Embrace Temperance, 1800-60, by Scott Martin, Bowling Green State
University

comment: W. Scott Haine, University of Maryland University College