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

Over a century later, the Prohibition era still has its effects on the drinking ... down to the 1890s and its first appearance in print is dated as 1914, when Jacques Straub published his book ...

That Boess had to ask tells you plenty about how well it was working. When the Prohibition era in the United States began on January 19, 1920, a few sage observers predicted it would not go well.

Prohibition in the United States ... Hundreds of thousands of speakeasies operated during the era, according to the New York Historical museum. "I don't think people really wanted to see it ...

This story appears in the October 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1929 Prohibition loomed large over local elections around the United States, including at this county courthouse in ...