Author: Paul Charles Kemeny

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0190844396

The New England Watch and Ward Society provides a new window into the history of American Protestantism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By suppressing obscene literature, gambling, and prostitution, the moral reform organization embodied Protestant efforts to shape public morality in an increasing intellectually and culturally diverse society.