Alcohol and Drugs History Society

Organized in 2004, the ADHS is the successor to a society with a more limited scope, the Alcohol and Temperance History Group, which existed for 25 years.

changed and its current co-editors are David Herzberg (SUNY-Buffalo), Nancy Campbell (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), and Lucas Richert (University of Strathclyde).

Other former editors include Jim Mills, from University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland; W. Scott Haine, from California, and the Reviews Editors are James Nicholls, from Bath Spa University, England and Alex Mold, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

In November, 2009 it created an editorial board, which is populated by some of the most prominent alcohol and drugs history scholars in the world.

The ADHS is affiliated with the American Historical Association and sponsors sessions at the January meetings of the AHA.