Join Jimmy and Lisa as they delve into the fascinating era of Prohibition in the United States from 1920 to 1933. Learn about the nationwide constitutional law that prohibited alcohol production, ...

KEN Burns’ new documentary on alcohol prohibition, premiering on PBS Sunday, reportedly begins with a Mark Twain quote: “It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.” As a retired police ...

Prohibition — 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 ...

A Prohibition raid in 1923 Chicago shows a man emptying mash used to make whiskey, via a hose, out onto the street in front of a group of children. Officer William Murphy, left, and Capt. James E.

How much has the property once occupied by McGovern’s saloon on Main Street increased in value since Prohibition? Interview your grandmother on the results of the Eighteenth Amendment and write a ...

When the Mayor of Berlin, Gustav Boess, visited New York City in the fall of 1929, one of the questions he had for his host, Mayor James J. Walker, was when Prohibition was to go into effect. The ...

THE fight for prohibition is over. It is far from my purpose to awaken the old and bitter controversy. Rather, it is because prohibition is now our adopted and definitive policy, that it seems worth ...

The Big MoneyandSlatepresent "Every Day I Read the Book," featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest is Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. Okrent has worn many hats in his ...

NEW YORK — In this era of bottomless mimosas, craft beers and ever-present happy hours, it’s striking to recall that 100 years ago the United States imposed a nationwide ban on the production and sale ...

The oldest third party in the US, with Jim Hedges as its candidate, is hoping to re-energize the movement that faded with Prohibition’s repeal in 1933 “Zero. None whatsoever.” Jim Hedges is the 2016 ...