Arkansas has always been somewhat ambivalent about the use of alcohol. From the earliest days of settlement, the state has sought to limit or even to prohibit the sale of alcohol while, at the same ...
In 1900, a former schoolteacher named Carrie Nation walked into a bar in Kiowa, Kansas, proclaimed, “Men, I have come to save you from a drunkard’s fate,” and proceeded to hurl bricks and stones at ...
America has rarely, if ever, been depicted as a land of gracious winners. I suppose it’s inherently difficult for any place with a culture of exceptionalism to foster that kind of value: Americans are ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Turn-of-the-century teetotaler Carry A. Nation began her campaign against drinking by busting up saloons in Kansas, which to this day has some of the strictest liquor laws in the ...
Arkansas Treasures is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Between 1900 and 1910, Carrie Nation of the Women's Christian Temperance Union was arrested over 30 times. Her crime? Walking into bars and ...