The most recent WCTU history sponsored by the WCTU is Sarah F. Ward, _The
White Ribbon Story: 125 Years of Service to Humanity_ (Evanston, Illinois:
Signal Press, 1999, pages xi, 189, ISBN 0967255104.

At 02:02 PM 7/4/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>>  (1) do I have my facts right?
>
>David, I think you have  your facts correct.
>
>>(2) why the decline of interest by
>>historians in the WCTU in the USA (at least as measured by book
publication)?
>
>This question is interesting.  The answer probably has as much to do with
>the state of history-writing in the United States as anything else.  The
>answer may be because the WCTU women were not "subaltern" and the fashion
>came to be, by the 1980s, only to write about the oppressed.  In my work, I
>had an occasion to review a syllabus in American women's history about 5
>years ago.  From that syllabus, the students would not know that an upper
>or middle class woman of European ancestry ever set foot on the soil of
>North America!  When I inquired, I was told, "oh, that is not where the
>field is at nowadays" or words to that effect!  Scholars my not be much
>interested in the WCTU because of the composition of its membership.  I
>think there is a lot of ignorance about the WCTU, especially its history
>after the death of Frances Willard when, contrary to what I have seen in
>print, the organization actually grew.
>
>
>
>
>K. Austin Kerr                   e-mail [log in to unmask]
>Professor of History             office (614)292-2613
>Ohio State University            department  292-2674
>Columbus, Ohio 43210 USA         fax    (614)292-2282
>