HISTORICAL RESOURCES ON ALCOHOL USE IN AMERICA
Compiled by Penny B. Page, M.L.S.
Information:alclib@rci.rutgers.edu

A growing number of organizations and institutions are providing Internet access to their historical materials on alcohol/drug use in America.  Below is a selected list of historical resources on the Web, some of which offer full-text documents and digitized images, while others provide access to bibliographic records through library catalogs and online databases.  A few of these Websites provide contact and descriptive information (regarding collections and services) only. 

Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/libs/hay/collections/kirk/index.html

• Special collections on Temperance Movement, Prohibition, and Alcoholics Anonymous
• Archives of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
• Online finding aids available

Alcohol and Drugs History Society
 http://historyofalcoholanddrugs.typepad.com

• International association of alcohol, temperance, and drug history scholars
• Listserv, daily weblog, and journal (Social History of Alcohol and Drugs)
• Links to other alcohol history sites and resources

• Bibliographic database of American Temperance and Prohibition monographs, pamphlets, and images
• Materials housed at Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University

• Digitized version of 1909 book by G. Thomann
• Located on website of The Brewery: Total Homebrewing Information

• Beer history library of online documents
• Photo gallery on beer and breweries
• Links to brewery sites and antique and collectible brewery advertising

• Digitized documents, images, and sound recordings from Americana collections (Library of Congress and other institutions)
• Over 100 collections represented, many with Temperance and Prohibition materials

• Digitized documents and images from Anti-Saloon League
• Selected items from World League Against Alcoholism, the Prohibition Party, and Lincoln-Lee Legion
• Museum located at Westerville Public Library (Ohio)

• Collection of works by and about F.H. Ludlow on marijuana use in mid-19th century
• Links to documents on history of drug use

• History of American business and technology
• Records of Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
• Bronfman family papers and records of the Seagram Company
• Other primary and secondary materials on Temperance and Prohibition

• History of addiction and treatment in America
• Documents, photographs, other artifacts and memorabilia
• Records not available online

• Images from the print and photographic collections of the National Library of Medicine (History of Medicine Division)
• Includes images related to alcohol use in America

• Full text of 1913 edition published by Macmillan
• Included in collection of Jack London's works, part of Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE project

• Digital library of books and journal articles on 19^th century American social history
• Full-texts of many Temperance and Prohibition-related documents

• Sponsored by Partisan Prohibition Historical Society from Colorado
• History and current information on Prohibition Party, candidates, and platform
• Links to sites for Prohibition Party archives

• From the Drug Reform Coordination Network
• Section on alcohol with digitized documents related to Prohibition

• Maintained by the Department of History, Ohio State University
• Summaries of historical events, images, full-text documents, links to related sites

• Brief histories and illustrations of Women's Crusade and WCTU
• Photographs of WCTU presidents

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