David M. Fahey
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'''David M. Fahey''' (born [[1937]], at Ossining, New York ) was a history professor at [[Miami University]] in [[Oxford, Ohio]]. After his retirement in 2006, he continued to teach modern British and world history at Miami on a part-time basis.
Educated at the [[University of Notre Dame]], Indiana he has written extensively on the Anglo-American [[temperance movement]] and, in particular, the [[Good Templar]] fraternal temperance society. He served as president of the Alcohol and Temperance History Group (later reorganized as the [[Alcohol and Drugs History Society]]). He is the author of ''Temperance and Racism: John Bull, Johnny Reb, and the Good Templars'' ([[University Press of Kentucky]], 1996) and the editor of ''The Collected Writings of Jessie Forsyth, 1847-1937: The Good Templars and Temperance Reform on Three Continents'' (Edwin Mellen Press, 1988). He served with Jack S. Blocker and Ian R. Tyrrell as an editor of ''Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia'' (ABC-CLIO, 2003). Fahey was the first recipient of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society’s senior scholar achievement award for lifetime service. He is a member of the editorial board, "Drugs and Alcohol: Contested Histories," a series published by [[Northern Illinois University]] Press.
Fahey also has been active in world history, primarily as a teacher and as an editor and participant in the [[listserv]] group H-World. Recently he combined his interest in temperance history and world history in two articles, "Poverty and Purification: The Politics of Gandhi’s Campaign for Prohibition" ''Historian'' 67/3 (Fall 2005), co-authored with Padma Manian, and "Temperance Internationalism: Guy Hayler and the World Prohibition Federation," in ''Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' 20/2 (Spring 2006).
As a by-product of his Good Templar research, he has developed an interest in African American [[Fraternities and sororities|fraternal societies]]. This led to his editing of an early biography of [[William Washington Browne]] titled, ''The Black Lodge in White America: "True Reformer" Browne and His Economic Strategy'' (University Press of America, 1994).
Fahey also edited a [[posthumous work|posthumous]] collection of essays written by his friend Frank J. Merli, ''The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War'' (Indiana University Press, 2004).
==See also==
*[[Alcohol and Drugs History Society]]
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