Alcohol and Drugs History Society

Jessie A. Ackermann, WCTU world missionary (thesis)

Margaret Shipley Carr, "The Temperance Worker as a Social Reformer and Ethnographer as Exemplified in the Life and Work of Jessie A. Ackermann" (M.A.L.S. thesis, East Tennessee State University, 2009). Based on the Ackermann collection at East Tennessee State's Archives of Appalachia.

American Jews, the WCTU, and the temperance movement (article)

Marni Davis, "'No Whisky Amazons in the Tents of Israel': American Jews and the Gilded Age Temperance Movement," American Jewish History 94/3 (September 2008).  Davis is writing a book (tentatively entitled Jews and Booze, to be published by New York University Press) on the involvement (real and imagined) of Jews in the liquor business in the decades leading up to National Prohibition.

American brewers and public relations, 1909-1919 (article)

Margot Opdycke Lamme, "The Brewers and Public Relations History, 1909-1919,"  Journal of Public Relations Research 21/4 (October 2009): 456-477.

New England tavern keepers, 1620-1720 (thesis)

Zachary Michael Carmichael, "Fit Men: New England Tavern Keepers, 1620-1720" (M.A. thesis, Miami University, 2009).

Carry-out beer in Pennsylvania hard to find

In contrast with neighboring states where carry-out beer is available at convenience stores and gas stations, Pennsylvania prohibits its sale even at supermarkets.  A few grocery stores get around the prohibition by opening adjacent cafes, but they have to provide facilities for customers to drink beer on site.  For more, see here.

Marijuana criminalized and medicalized, 1906-2004 (book)

Jeffrey M. London, How the Use of Marijuana was Criminalized and Medicalized, 1906-2004: a Foucaultian History of Legislation in America (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009).

Does Uganda drink twice as much per capita as the USA?

According to Wikipedia (drawing on World Health Organization statistics), Uganda's per capita consumption of pure alcohol in the highest in the world, while the USA ranks 43rd (and consumes only half as much pure alcohol per capita than does the East African country).

Prohibition as a bad idea (book)

Mark Lawrence Schrad, The Power of a Bad Idea: Networks, Institutions, and the Global Prohibition Wave (Oxford UP, February 2010).  

From his website:

    In The Political Power of Bad Ideas, Mark Lawrence Schrad casts off the conventional assumptions that policymakers rationally mimic best policy practices in order to understand a curious international development: how a “wave” of alcohol prohibition--well-known to contemporaries as a bad policy idea--swept Europe and North America with the outbreak of World War I.

    Original quantitative data and extensive archival research in Russia, Sweden and the United States provide the foundation not only for a better understanding of this historical development, but also for broader theorization about the forces shaping policy debates and outcomes in different national settings. 

    The growth of a robust transnational temperance advocacy network in the nineteenth century paved the way for policy action by diffusing a wide spectrum of policy-relevant ideas across numerous countries; the crisis of World War provided the catalyst, while the resulting policy trajectories were influenced by the institutional structure of decisionmaking in each country. The activation of institutional mechanisms of positive policy feedback, and the mobilization of normative policy-relevant ideational elements facilitated the adoption of prohibition in autocratic Russia and a society-dominated United States, while the institutional mechanisms of negative policy feedback and the mobilization of cognitive policy-relevant ideational elements proved resistant to widespread pressures for the bad policy of prohibition in corporatist Sweden. 
    Walking in the footsteps of Peter Hall’s edited classic, The Political Power of Economic Ideas, Schrad goes beyond the simplistic notion that “ideas matter” by articulating how and why they exert influence in different institutional contexts--examining how they “fit” or interact with national political actors, institutions, and  policy dynamics. By advancing our understanding of an important chapter in world history and the confluence of ideas and institutions, this book will be of interest to scholars of American politics, international relations, comparative politics, sociology, and American, European and Russian history.

Beer baron of Boise (book)

Herman W. Ronnenberg, The Beer Baron of Boise: The Life of John Lemp, Millionaire Brewer of Frontier Idaho (Troy, Idaho: Heritage Witness Reflections, 2008).

American Breweriana Journal

American Breweriana Journal
No. 161 September-October, 2009
Neons of North America Rich Wagner
Weiss Beer Breweries Henry herbst, Don Roussin and Kevin Kious
The Sehring Brewery: Triumph and Tragedy Jack Sullivan
The Conrad Seipp Brewing Company Bob Lay