The United States marked its 250th anniversary this year. Since its independence in 1776, the U.S. territory has expanded ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

Welcome to JJ Foley's Cafe, *** Boston bar and institution that survived prohibition. Thanks to Jeremiah Foley's hard working and creative grandfather. Was he selling more than cheese? Yes. January ...

Welcome to JJ Foley's Cafe, *** Boston bar and institution that survived prohibition. Thanks to Jeremiah Foley's hard working and creative grandfather. Was he selling more than cheese? Yes. January ...

Prohibition was a time of bathtub gin and rum runners, when America technically gave up alcohol for about 13 years. And though the government turned off the tap for all kinds of liquor, there was a ...

About the time Drys were joyfully celebrating the tenth anniversary of constitutional Prohibition last winter (TIME, Jan. 27) a new and uncharted groundswell of Wet sentiment became discernible to ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Your New Year’s celebrations might look a lot different if it weren’t for the 21st Amendment. This December marks 90 years since the constitutional amendment was ratified, ...

As the United States went through a dry spell during Prohibition, a man with a signature look kept the liquor flowing for the nation’s lawmakers on Capitol Hill. George Cassiday, known as “the Man in ...

A handful of companies, including Brown-Forman, received medicinal licenses to legally sell existing spirits during Prohibition. The repeal of Prohibition in 1933 did not immediately solve the ...