One of Scranton’s best known schools and the subject of Pam Beesly’s art project on NBC’s “The Office,” was named after a figure largely lost to history – Frances Willard. A founding force in the ...

On Jan. 17, 1920, one hundred years ago, America officially went dry. The last time I was in The Cave I began wondering, given how prevalent Prohibition-era speakeasies appear to have been, what ...

Eighty-nine years ago this week, another of our long national nightmares was over. For 13 luckless years, the United States of America went piously, officially “dry,” banning by constitutional ...

PRIOR to last July, there were only three Prohibition states in the Union, — Maine, Kansas, and North Dakota. Since that date, four states have been added to the Prohibition group: Oklahoma, by a ...

It’s hard not to see the obvious parallels with today’s political situation after only a few moments watching Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s terrific 2011 documentary “Prohibition.” The three-part series ...

Calls to ban the production and sale of alcohol in the U.S. started nearly a century before Prohibition, with the creation of temperance societies and growing support of the abstinence movement. Here ...

In reality, the exact opposite was true. America’s most vocal prohibitionists weren’t privileged white evangelicals, but its most marginalized and disenfranchised communities: women, Native Americans ...

On December 5, 1933, Utah ratified the 21st Amendment, ending prohibition in the United States.

Progressives today are eager to do some constitutional tinkering. One amendment to the U.S. Constitution many would like to draft would abolish the Electoral College. Another would alter the lifetime ...

David Frum suggested in The Atlantic that the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion could go the way of the Prohibition movement. Frum’s Monday piece claimed, "Roe Is the New Prohibition," ...

(THE CONVERSATION) On Jan. 17, 1920, one hundred years ago, America officially went dry. Prohibition, embodied in the U.S Constitution’s 18th amendment, banned the sale, manufacture and transportation ...