Prohibition in the United States, which lasted from 1920 to 1933, banned the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. The movement was fueled by moral and religious objections ...

Banning booze in Bihar has empowered gangs and illicit markets in an echo of the 1920s. Here's what went wrong ...

Excerpt from "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition" "THE STREETS OF San Francisco were jammed. A frenzy of cars, trucks, wagons, and every other imaginable form of conveyance crisscrossed ...

The Village Bohemian counterculture movement in the late 19th century and early 20th, with its artistic creativity and ...

The temperance movement helped to shutter about one-third of them, and by 1919, there were fewer than 100 left open. On Prohibition Day, as the temperance leaguers, the drys, held a party at ...

Prohibition emerged from the growing American temperance movement protesting the sale of alcohol in the late 19th Century. By 1915, twenty US states had turned ‘dry', passing legislation ...

“Alcohol is a well-established, preventable cause of cancer responsible for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the United States – greater than the 13,500 ...