Prohibition aimed to curb male violence. Instead, it gave rise to female bootleggers, policy advocates, and a cultural shift ...

Fact check: $20 bill does not show a lynching outside of the White House; it's a lantern Enforcing Prohibition. For over a decade, the United States barred the production and sale of drinking ...

A hundred years after Prohibition began in 1920, Americans were drinking more in early 2020 than they were before alcohol was banned. Consumption rose even more in 2020 and 2021 amid lockdowns and ...

Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government, the genesis of our contemporary penal state. Her deeply researched, eye-opening account uncovers patterns of enforcement ...

The states could regulate the importation or transportation of alcohol within their states, but federal prohibition was no longer a constitutional mandate. This is what makes the 21st Amendment unique ...

On January 17, 1920, the nation began a period of prohibition that lasted longer than Boston's newspapers had anticipated.It meant the death of some longstanding Boston watering holes.

In “Five Best: Books on Prohibition” (April 1), Jeanette Walls states that “drinking rose to record levels and America erupted into the most violent crime wave it had ever endured.” Not so ...

The alcohol comparison is instructive in another way. Even during Prohibition, which banned the production and distribution of “intoxicating liquors,” drinking was not a crime.

Sheboygan during Prohibition saw ‘gigantic’ raids, alcohol poisonings & spirited debates A spirited debate on Prohibition in March 1930 saw Sheboygan Press editor Charles E. Broughton go toe ...

Tuesday marks 90 years since the end of Prohibition, the 13-year federal ban on alcohol now largely viewed as a failed experiment that glamorized illegal drinking. The Prohibition Era lasted from ...