Richard F. Hamm University at Albany -- SUNY I have been working in the field of temperance history for about 15 years now. My interest is primarily in legal history. My monograph, Shaping the 18th Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920 has just been published for the Legal History Series by University of North Carolina Press. It is available in paper. Picking up on David Fahey's suggestion, I will summarize it by quoting the back jacket "Most scholarship on prohibition focuses on its social context, but Hamm explores how the regulation of commerce and the federal tax structure molded the drys crusade. He shows that interaction with the federal . . . system helped to reshape prohibitionists'' legal culture -- that is, their ideas about what law was and how it could be used." Beyond that "Because the prohibition movement was a quintessential reform effort, Hamm uses it as a case study to advance a general theory about interaction between progressive reformers and the state during" the period. I have been Executive Secretary of Alcohol and Temperance Group for about two years and a member for at least a dozen. If you wish to join the group, say so in this forum and I will send you the requisite materials. Subscription information follows. Currently North American members pay US$15, members in other countries US$20, and institutions and libraries US$20. Back copies of the SHAR and its predecessor newsletters are available. For new members we will begin your subscription to the Social History of Alcohol Review with issue 30. While I am writing let me correct the my phone address, previously posted. The proper number is 518 442-4888, this rings right to my desk, or if I am not there, right to my voice mail. Richard F. Hamm History Department Ten Broeck 105 University at Albany, Suny Albany, NY 12222 [log in to unmask]