Carrie (later “Carry”) A ... Nation: Retelling the Life (2001)—the most thorough Nation biography, and notably the only one written by a woman. She was not a “cranky, insane woman ...

Carry A. Nation addressing a crowd of college students on May 3, 1902. | Wystan, Wikipedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0 Kansas had banned alcohol statewide in 1880, but the law was barely enforced.

So when she met Charles Gloyd, an educated former Union Army doctor, she was thrilled at the opportunity for a new life, Fran Grace wrote in the biography, "Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life." ...

Carrie Amelia Moore became Carrie A. Nation when she married Wayne County Civil War veteran David Nation of the 69th Indiana. The name became Carry A Nation, which she took as a sign from God that ...

On this day in 1900, a hatchet-wielding Carrie Nation brought her campaign against alcohol to Wichita, Kansas, where she damaged the bar at the elegant Carey Hotel. Since the Kansas Constitution ...

Calls president "Beer-guzzling dutchman" Carrie Nation sharpened her hatchet on a Muskegon audience of between 2,000 and 3,000 at Lake Michigan Park yesterday afternoon. That she had missed her ...