Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 18th Amendment was the amendment frequently referred to as the “Prohibition Amendment.” It was ratified by the states on Jan.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coast Guardsmen stand in front of two truckloads of liquor seized on April 14, 1931, after a battle between three policemen and ...

Subscribe for more In 1920, $10 could buy you a full week of groceries... or a one-way ticket to a jail cell. Were diving ...

NATIONAL prohibition has presented the American people with several questions of major importance. Has prohibition as a social and economic measure justified itself in substantial results? Has the ...

Welcome to JJ Foley's Cafe, *** Boston bar and institution that survived prohibition. Thanks to Jeremiah Foley's hard working and creative grandfather. Was he selling more than cheese? Yes. January ...

The Prohibition era (1920-1933) was a bold attempt to eliminate alcohol from American life, aiming to curb its negative societal effects. Instead, it unleashed unintended consequences that still echo ...

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.

Prohibition-era booze wasn't just illegal — it was often unsafe, poorly made, and downright gross for reasons rooted in how ...

When the 18th Amendment outlawed alcohol in 1920, it set the stage for an underground empire unlike anything America had seen before. Prohibition-era gangsters stepped into the void, building fortunes ...

Prohibition was a time of bathtub gin and rum runners, when America technically gave up alcohol for about 13 years. And though the government turned off the tap for all kinds of liquor, there was a ...

Paul G. Summers is a lawyer. He is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to ...