Because of the lawlessness that Prohibition inspired, as well as the prospect of jobs that legal alcohol production could ...

On Dec. 5, 1848, in an address to Congress, President James K. Polk sparked the Gold Rush of ’49 by confirming that gold had ...

Prohibition ended on this day in 1933, meaning Americans could once again drink alcohol legally. Prohibition gave rise to ...

A handful of companies, including Brown-Forman, received medicinal licenses to legally sell existing spirits during Prohibition. The repeal of Prohibition in 1933 did not immediately solve the ...

On this day in 1933, Prohibition ended in the U.S. The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified on Dec. 5.

How to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the repeal of the 18th Amendment? At Steuben’s, the two-year-old restaurant/watering hole at 531 East 17th Avenue that celebrates regional cuisines and quirks, ...

Almost a century after Prohibition ended, alcohol faces a new reckoning. In New Mexico, where alcohol-related mortality rates are the highest in the U.S., lawmakers are preparing two proposals to ...

April 6 is the official day of the unofficial holiday celebrating the end of Prohibition. What is this day called, you ask? It’s appropriately titled New Beer’s Eve. World of Beer, aka Beer Heaven, is ...

The Cruise Room is a Colorado classic. Modeled after a lounge on the Queen Mary, the bar opened the day after Prohibition ended in December 1933. By which point the jazz age had given way to the ...

The week before American Prohibition ended in 1933, Brown-Forman started mashing and fermenting grain. Owsley Brown I had heard rumblings the law was about to be overturned and he wanted one of ...