HIST: U.S. History Websites

Topic Guide

This exhibit highlights public broadcasting recordings of conversations on climate change—

Documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage.

Provides an overview of the temperance movement; includes photographs, political cartoons, charts, graphs, and excerpts from primary documents.

Over 1,600 pieces of ephemera, such as broadsides and pamphlets, that document the quest to make prohibition a reality during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in America.

Includes pamphlets, songs, editorials, correspondence, petitions, and house bills relating to alcohol prohibition and the temperance movement. Specific topics include the impact of restaurant associations on prohibition, correspondence with legislators, promotional material distributed by anti-alcohol groups, and women’s roles in the temperance movement.