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

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 ...

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 ...

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

C.) News & Observer, President Wilson’s Secretary of the Navy who, in 1914, abolished alcohol on all U. S. warboats. He declared himself ready to keep up the fight to enforce Prohibition for a ...

One year after ratification, on January 17, 1920, Prohibition began. A short time afterward, the Volstead Act, passed by Congress, provided for federal enforcement. Alcohol consumption declined ...

The parallels with early 20th century Prohibition in America – gangsters ... “If they’re not producing [alcohol], then they are drinking happily in plenty. They forget whatever restrictions ...