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

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.

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

Old Forester is marking Repeal Day with a new bourbon that nods to the whiskey it once sold “for medicinal use only” during ...

“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 ...

The Log Cabin Restaurant in Leola shook off its speakeasy roots and became legal after Prohibition ended on Dec. 5, 1933. So the establishment has in past years hosted Prohibition-repeal-themed ...

This interview was originally broadcast on May 10, 2010. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition is now available in paperback. Between the years of 1920, when the 18th Amendment to the ...

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