Nearly a hundred years after the US Government outlawed alcohol, Smithsonian Channel’s two-part limited series Drinks, Crime and Prohibition, examines the ban on alcohol in America, and the resultant ...

While many Americans are in the midst of "dry January," Jan. 17 once marked the start of a dry 13 years-- for all Americans -- a century ago. The 18th Amendment went into effect on Jan. 17, 1920, and ...

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It was a cold Monday morning on Dec. 21, 1931. A man's body was discovered in a shallow cellar of a run-down abandoned gas station. He was stripped naked, with nine bloody bullet wounds to the head, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Prohibition was a fascinating time in American history, and the effects of the 18th Amendment are still being felt today. Before we get into ...

It was the death knell of booze. In theory, anyway. On Feb. 25, 1919, church bells throughout Harrisburg clanged in celebration after Pennsylvania ratified the 18th Amendment prohibiting “the ...

Now they've just released their latest report, Enforcement of Drug Laws: Refocusing on Organized Crime Elites, which takes on the perverse and insidious ways drug prohibition actually empowers and ...

Paid for by Communities United for Smart Policy. Call it America’s new prohibition era. All over the country, there are discussions about banning books, gas stoves and certain social media platforms.

During President Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address, he declared that “in this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” The populist right would ...

Could you use a drink after 2020? Dec. 5 marks 87 years since the end of Prohibition and Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge is hosting a party to celebrate the anniversary. The Roaring ...