I'm glad to see this group forming. I hope it takes off quickly. I'm a grad student in Am. Civ. at Harvard and an occasional teaching associate at U.T. at San Antonio (and a doctor's spouse and the father of two small-but-active children -- but I only add this to excuse the fact that I haven't finished my diss.). I am working on a history of early prohibition campaigns in Texas. I am trying to place Texas prohibitionists within a broader, southern version of prohibition, and am utilizing many of the usual sources -- religious and secular press, census reports, temperance literature, older monographs -- to make my case. I would be particularly interested in a discussion of the state of the field. What's new in alcohol and temperance history? Like most at this stage, I (thankfully) was forced to put together a bibliography of sorts, but I suspect that I have missed quite a bit of recent work. Who's working out there? I look forward to our conversations. James Ivy [log in to unmask]