Prohibition, under the 18th Amendment, prevented the legal manufacture, sale & distribution of alcoholic beverages in the US ...

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

Britain’s first black woman bishop tells her story for the first time in a new memoir.

Given the encouragement by the conviction of Mrs. Maude Basham in the Owensboro police court on a charge of violating the ...

Women are reshaping the biggest wealth transfer in modern history. A record number of Americans turn 65 this year, and more women are set to outlive their husbands as female lifespans lengthen ...

For years, some states implemented their own restrictions and bans on alcohol. During World War I, the country got its first taste of temperance as concerns over grain shortages and anti-German ...

The ACLU of Florida filed suit this week against a 2023 law it argues curtails academic freedom and violates First Amendment rights. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of professors whose careers have ...

Prohibition in the United States ... The effort was headed by protestant Christian groups and women's groups fighting against domestic abuse. For years, some states implemented their own ...

The puritan core of America was solidly behind it, expressed through such institutions as the Anti-Saloon League and the ... well known, Prohibition brought a new sub-culture of bootleggers ...

The term bootlegger pre-dates the Prohibition era, originating sometime in the mid-1800s. It came about because soldiers would hide items, mostly alcohol, in their high boots. While Prohibition ...

Buffalo Trace Distillery just revealed the second edition of its Prohibition Collection, an annual limited-edition lineup of five bottles honoring the whiskeys that were legally produced and sold ...