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.

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

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On Dec. 5, 1933, Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The ...

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

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 ...

“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 ...

A legendary Morris County steakhouse has been sold after nearly 100 years of operation and three generations of family ...

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