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 ...

“That was not the intention of Prohibition supporters.” Ratification of the 18th Amendment in 1919, which set the stage for Prohibition’s launch a year later, culminated a century of advocacy by the ...

In its era, they called it the "Volstead Act," so named because of the amendment's major proponent, Andrew Volstead. In reality, it would become the 18th Amendment to the United States ...

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 Jan.

As the U.S. began its shift from a rural to an urban society at the end of the Civil War, saloons started to appear on street corners in poor and working class neighborhoods. In addition to alcohol, ...