So what’s the first thing Aunt Ada does to ruffle Aunt Agnes’s feathers? She hosts a temperance fundraiser in the house. The temperance movement, of course, fought for alcohol to be outlawed from ...

The old box was labeled “banner” and as I had been working through the textile collection (with many more boxes to go) I had moved and opened it several times. The banner was small and not very ...

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Library’s Special Collections has been awarded a $3,679 Tennessee Historical Records Advisory Board programming regrant through funding made available by the ...

Alice Hoover of Coshocton was born in Crawford County and her mother, Mildred Marshal Heft, was from Corning. Heft served with the Women's Temperance Christian Union and gave speeches in the 1930s at ...

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Agnes Kemp sought equal rights for women. In their travels, these 19th-century figures lectured about abolition, temperance and women’s suffrage to a variety of ...