Monday marks 100 years since the House and Senate overrode a presidential veto of the Volstead Act, thus making law enforcement of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution. Prohibition banned the ...

A new two-part TV special takes a look at both drinks and politics during Prohibition. I asked Brown about cocktails in America before, during, and after Prohibition and how nostalgic drinkers can ...

While many Americans are in the midst of "dry January," Jan. 17 once marked the start of a dry 13 years-- for all Americans -- a century ago. The 18th Amendment went into effect on Jan. 17, 1920, and ...

The end of prohibition is reported on the front page of William Randolph Hearst's New York Daily Mirror on Dec. 6, 1933. On this date 90 years ago, the 21st Amendment was ratified, ending 14 and a ...

“We cheerfully accept the will of the majority. . . .”—John Raskob. Michigan’s chief prohibiter, the Rev. R. N. Holsaple, wrote Mr. Raskob a letter. Did Mr. Raskob mean that he & friends would now ...

In the annals of American public policy failures, one of the biggest and most disastrous is about to have its 100th anniversary. A person might even be inclined to raise a toast for this anniversary ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeanette Hurt covers the culture of spirits, wine and beer. Exactly a century ago today, Americans ushered in Prohibition. A ...

On January 16, 1919, Congress announced that in one year's time, the United States would go dry. According to the 18th Amendment, ratified on that day, the manufacture, sale or transportation of ...

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