About the time Drys were joyfully celebrating the tenth anniversary of constitutional Prohibition last winter (TIME, Jan. 27) a new and uncharted groundswell of Wet sentiment became discernible to ...

The Creative Culinary Response to Speakeasy Culture When Prohibition went into effect on January 17, 1920, following the ...

When the 18th Amendment took effect in January 1920, America's drinking culture didn't disappear. It shifted into kitchens, ...

One hundred years ago, Prohibition officially went into effect. The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of “intoxicating liquors” across the ...

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

So much prejudice and finality of opinion surround the question of drink-reform that he who approaches it judicially risks being misunderstood both as to his purpose and as to the bearing of the ...

Calls to ban the production and sale of alcohol in the U.S. started nearly a century before Prohibition, with the creation of temperance societies and growing support of the abstinence movement. Here ...

Liquor, women and jazz -- that combination set the country on a tilt in 1920. In 1920 women were given the right to vote. A new form of music called jazz was sweeping through the country, capturing ...

In California, Michigan, Arizona, and many other states cannabis cultivation, use, and distribution may be legal but there is still a major roadblock – federal prohibition. According to reports from ...