Canonical contributor authority record for H. Paul Thompson Jr.. Identity and 2020 publication-time biography were verified from rendered PDF sheets 210–213.
Authority summary
Dean of humanities and professor of history at North Greenville University as credited in 2020; historian of nineteenth-century temperance, religion, race relations, and Prohibition in the New South.
Contribution to Prohibition's Greatest Myths
Chapter 1 distinguishes the broad, internally contested temperance movement from the Anti-Saloon League's focused prohibition program and modern organizational tactics.
Project use and boundary
Use for the temperance/prohibition distinction and League mechanism. Specific movement statistics and organizational claims remain chapter-attributed until independently corroborated.