An image depicting teetotaler women protesting the consumption of alcohol actually has origins as a satirical publicity still ...

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 ...

Prohibition was intended to improve, even to ennoble, the lives of all Americans, to protect individuals, families, and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse. But the ...

graft and corruption which finally led to the law’s repeal as a failure and South Carolina’s movement toward State Prohibition. Under questioning, he admitted that local conditions then were ...

The Colorado Springs Philharmonic will tap into that rhythm this weekend to perform “Bootlegger’s Bash” at Pikes Peak Center.

Within a few years, the federal government extended Prohibition on alcohol to all states. The following year, in 1919, the Volstead Act set out the details of what Prohibition meant and the ...

Black-and-white photos of five men pouring barrels and drinking alcohol against an old map of the U.S. - Static Media / Shutterstock / Getty ...

Musical conductor Thomas Wilson describes the music of the Prohibition era as the “sound of resistance.” The 1920s speakeasy movement brought about the birth of jazz, Wilson said, creating the ...