The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a progressive effort to enforce social reform via expanded federal power and popularly known as Prohibition, was ratified on this day in history, Jan. 16, ...

Rum-running sounds almost as fun as rum-drinking - probably why we mythologize one and end up fuzzy on the other. With its wine scene burgeoning at the turn of the century, California stood to lose ...

January 16, 2019, marks 100 years since the 18th Amendment was ratified, banning the “manufacture, sale, and distribution of intoxicating liquors.” The period from 1920 to 1933 is known as 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 ...

These days, you can’t talk about the pro-marijuana movement without one dispensary owner or weed lover citing the failure of Prohibition as a lesson — as in, the legalization of pot can’t be stopped ...

BUTTE, Mont. - Three University of Montana archaeological graduate students are digging up the past in Butte. It's part of a thesis on widows during the Prohibition era. "People in Butte didn't just ...

On Jan. 17, 1920, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect, ushering in a 13-year period known as Prohibition.Prohibition banned the manufacturing, transportation and sale of ...

One hundred years ago the United States went dry. A temperance movement had swept the country, culminating with the passage of the 18th Amendment in 1919, which banned the sale of alcohol. The formal ...

Milwaukee County Historical Society, which has a pretty impressive beeriana collection and also runs Brew City MKE, a Milwaukee beer museum and tavern at the former Shops of Grand Avenue, launches a ...