Where was the best place to find a stiff drink during Prohibition? Capitol Hill. George Cassiday, an unemployed army veteran from Southeast Washington, D.C. known as "The Man in the Green Hat," kept ...

rohibition - America's notoriously "failed social experiment" to rid the country of alcohol - took center stage this week as PBS broadcast Ken Burns' highly acclaimed series on the subject. And ...

In 1918 and early 1919, with giddy thoughts of reforming society, voters in 36 states overwhelmingly approved the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, banning the sale and manufacture of intoxicating ...

Dennis White has been making up tunes ever since he learned to play the piano at 5 years old, sharing a bench with his mother. He would play many more instruments as he got older, and for many years ...