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 ...

Wednesday marks the anniversary of the day that Prohibition was officially repealed. On Dec. 5, 1933, Utah became the 36th state to ratify the amendment and end a ban on the "manufacture, sale, or ...

Was prohibition really the policy failure it is made out to be? The obvious answer is yes — of course, it was a failure. Prohibition bred corruption, organized crime, gangland violence and a general ...

On Dec. 5, 1933, Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Inspired by the distillery’s Prohibition-era history, including the 1929 100-day “distilling holiday,” this limited release ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

They say trends are cyclical – take the ‘90s blowout, for example, which has made a robust comeback, or the disposable camera which now finds itself the subject of a renaissance among ...

The disappearance of a law often signifies that it has either fulfilled its purpose, proven inherently useless, or been ...

Such U. S. citizens as may habitually order their liquor by telephone discovered last week that they may be prosecuted under that section of the Volstead Act which prohibits the transportation of ...

Somehow, of all people, Hegel won. The German philosopher promulgated a notion that history, broadly, is a story of progress. Modern Americans may not read or understand Hegel, but we have ...

The time between 1920 and 1933 was known as the Prohibition era in the United States. For more than a decade, alcohol was outlawed in America, leading to creative solutions for those still seeking ...