"History 680: Alcohol and Drugs in American History". Taught by Scott Martin, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH. Spring 2000.
Course Description
This colloquium examines the American experience with drugs and alcohol from the perspectives of social, cultural, and policy history. We will explore how Americans have attempted to regulate the use of alcohol and drugs, the context for and influences on these regulatory efforts, and their impact on American society and culture. Topics include: patterns of consumption from the colonial period to the present; the emergence of temperance movements; models of addiction and their influence on policy; an assessment of Prohibition; and the "War on Drugs."
Reading List
Shaping the 18th Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920 -- Richard Hamm.
The Politics of Sin: Drugs, Alcohol, and Public Policy -- Kenneth J. Meier.
Revenuers & Moonshiners: Enforcing Federal Liquor Law in the Mountain South, 1865-1900 -- Wilbur Miller.
The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control -- Musto, David.
Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800-1930 -- Pegram, Thomas.
The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition Unrau -- Rorabaugh, William.
Man's Wicked Water: The Alcohol Trade and Prohibition in Indian Country, 1802-1892 -- William E. White
Drug Control Policy: Essays in Historical and Comparative Perspective -- William O. Walker
Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism 3rd. ed.
Marijuana: Assassin of Youth -- Harry Anslinger, American Magazine 124: 1 (July 1937), 148-153.
Building Systems to Manage Inebriates: The Divergent Paths of California and Massachusetts, 1891-1920 -- Jim Baumohl and Sarah W. Tracy, Contemporary Drug Problems 21: 4 (Winter 1994), 557-597.
American Temperance Movements: Cycles of Reform -- Jack S. Blocker, Jr.
Woman and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty -- Bordin, Ruth, 1873-1900.
New Perspectives on the Prohibition 'Experiment' of the 1920's -- J. C. Burnham, Journal of Social History 2:1 (Fall 1968), 51- 68.
Puritans in Taverns: Law and Popular Culture in Colonial Massachusetts, 1630-1720 -- David W. Conroy, 29-60 in Susanna Barrows and Robin Room (Eds.), Drinking: Behavior and Belief in Modern History.
Dark Paradise: Opiate Addiction in America before 1940 -- David T Courtwright.
The Rocky Road to a 'Drug Free Tennessee: A History of the Early Regulation of Cocaine and the Opiates, 1890-1913 -- Jeffrey Clayton Foster, Journal of Social History 29: 3 (Spring 1996), 547-564.
Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease -- Herbert Fingarette.
A Prayerful Public Protest: The Significance of Gender in the Kansas Woman's Crusade of 1874 -- Nancy G. Garner, Kansas History 20:4 (Winter 1997-98), 214-229.
Dope Fiends and Degenerates: The Gendering of Addiction in the Early Twentieth Century -- Mara L. Keire, Journal of Social History 31: 4 (Summer 1998), 809-822.
'If you will not drink with me, you must fight with me': The Sociology of Drinking in the Middle Colonies -- Kross, Jessica, Pennsylvania History.
Sober Thoughts -- Kyvig, David. In David Kyvig (Ed.) Law, Order, and Alcohol: Perspectives on National Prohibition.
Drinking in America: A History -- Lender, Mark, and James Martin.
The Discovery of Addiction: Changing Conceptions of Habitual Drunkenness in America -- Levine, Harry G., Journal of Studies on Alcohol 39 (1978): 143-74.
From Prohibition to Regulation: Lessons from Alcohol Policy for Drug Policy -- Levine, Harry G. and Craig Reinarman, Milbank Quarterly 69: 3 (1991), 461-494.
Men, Women, and Alcohol in Indian Villages in the Great Lakes Region in the Early Republic -- Peter C. Mancall, Journal of the Early Republic 15: 3 (Fall 1995), 425-48.
Alcohol Consumption during Prohibition -- Jeffrey Miron and Jeffrey Zwiebel. AEA Papers and Proceedings 81:2 (May 1991), 242-247.
American Syndicate Crime -- Humbert Nell. In David Kyvig (Ed.) Law, Order, and Alcohol: Perspectives on National Prohibition
The New Temperance: The American Obsession with Sin and Vice -- Wagner, David.
Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America -- White, William L.
The Search for Rational Drug Control -- Zimring, Franklin, and Gordon Hawkins.
Course Outline
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Introduction
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Week 2
Drinking in Early America |
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Rorabaugh 1-173;
Conroy, "Puritans in Taverns,"
Kross, "If You Will Not Drink;"
Lender and Martin, Drinking in America, 1-40.
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Week 3
Early Temperance Movements |
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Rorabaugh, finish;
Pegram, 3-42;
Blocker, American Temperance Movements 1-60
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Week 4
Native Americans and Federal Alcohol Policy
First Essay Due
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Unrau; Mancall, "Men, Women, and Alcohol"
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Week 5
Drug Policy in Global Perspective
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Manuscript provided by Prof. Courtwright
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Week 6
Temperance Movements II |
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Garner, "Public Protest,"
Pegram 43-108; Blocker 61-129;
Bordin, Woman and Temperance, 3-14; 52-71, 117-139.
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Week 7
Drug and Alcohol Regulation Before Prohibition
Second Essay Due
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Miller; Foster, "Rocky Road;"
Pegram, 109-135.
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Week 8
The Coming of Prohibition |
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Hamm;
Pegram, 136-65.
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Week 9
Assessing Prohibition |
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Zimring, 45-81;
Meier, 135-75;
Miron & Zwiebel, "Alcohol;" Pegram, 166- 189;
Levine&Reinarman, "Prohibition;"
Kyvig, "Sober Thoughts;"
Nelli, "American Syndicate;"
Burnham, "New Perspectives;"
Hamm manuscript.
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Week 10
Beginnings of Drug Policy |
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Musto, 1-68, 91-120;
Courtwright, "Dark Paradise," 1-34;
Baumohl & Tracy, "Building Systems."
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Week 11
Reefer Madness
Third Essay Due
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Musto, 121-229;
Walker, 117-142;
Anslinger, "Assassin,"
Courtwright, 113-147;
Keire, "Dope Fiends."
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Week 12
The Disease Model and Policy
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Levine, "Discovery,"
Musto, 69-90, 230-243;
Blocker,130-161;
White, Slaying, 178-98;
Alcoholics Anonymous, xxiii-xxx, 30-43;
Fingarette, 1-30, 133-43.
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Week 13
Drug Policy, 1930-2000
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Musto, 244-300;
Meier, 3-134;
Walker, 89-116
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Week 14
Toward a Policy History of Drugs and Alcohol in the United States
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Walker, 1-88, 143-166;
Meier, 176-225;
Wagner, "New," 13-34
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