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Tennessee's Temperance University and its place in the history books

Amber Roberson
Nashville Tennessean

Happy Monday and welcome to your Daily Briefing! I'm Amber Roberson, newsletter strategist for The Tennessean.

As a society, we're getting more health conscious and some are forgoing alcohol in favor of endlessly-sippable mocktails for social gatherings. But while Sober October and Dry January are becoming more a part of the norm, it's nothing new for Tennessee.

The state now marketing its Whiskey Trail once housed the country’s one and only institution of higher education centered on the banning of alcohol — Temperance University.

The American Temperance University's fame spread in its opening year of 1893. This is a feature, possibly an advertorial, in a New York paper.

Open from 1893 to 1908, the University hosted a 250-student inaugural class and in 1905 handed the University of Tennessee their winningest game in school history — by a LOT.

Read more from Danielle Dreilinger about the university's fascinating history, and the scandal that brought it down here.

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