During Prohibition, the U.S. government added toxins to industrial alcohol, knowing it could kill. The result? A chemical war that targeted the poor and reshaped public trust. Two young men share ...

Prohibition is now widely seen as a failed ... It would be repealed in 1933 after alcohol smuggling fueled the rise of organized crime and a host of other unintended consequences.

An early Vino Sano advertisement called it a “kick in a brick,” adding that the buyer needed only water and “14 days patience ...

When the Prohibition era in the United States began on January 19, 1920, a few sage observers predicted it would not go well. Certainly, previous attempts to outlaw the use of alcohol in American ...

another gang stole four casks of grain alcohol from a government bonded warehouse, and still another hijacked a truck carrying whiskey. Americans were about to discover that making Prohibition the ...

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 ...