According to Rolling Stone, "It held the whole world in its slightly skeevy grasp all summer long." This year's summer ...

Lepore offers a sweeping, poignant narrative of American history, centered on the founding ideals of the United States. She ...

A Nation of Drunkards PROHIBITION tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. Prohibition was intended to ...

You might guess bathtub gin or home-brewed beer. But you’d be wrong. “Prohibition made the chocolate ice cream soda the national drink,” declared a Wichita, Kansas, ice cream manufacturer in ...

Key sources: “Brick Plants Utilized in Welfare Operations.” Anchorage Daily Times, October 20, 1931, 2. Kassens, Alice Louise. Intemperate Spirits: Economic Adaptation During Prohibition ...

Another piece in the Times' Aug. 19, 1901, edition followed Nation's arrival in Atlantic City, New Jersey, writing, "Mrs. Carrie Nation has come and gone, and there was not a smashing nor anything ...

Fox Nation's 'Frank Costello: The Real Life Godfather' and 'Mob Mentality: Louis Ferrante' take a deeper look into the lives of those involved in organized crime.

Prohibition-era serving trays are some of the most common pieces of memorabilia from the time, but the rarer the design, the more they sell for. This rare, early Anheuser-Busch tray sold for more ...

Prohibition is intertwined with the birth of the modern Indian nation itself. Drinking grew more popular under colonial rule, becoming a rallying point for the independence movement, who boycotted ...

Prohibition in the United States, which lasted from 1920 to 1933, banned the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. The movement was fueled by moral and religious objections ...

In 1900, a former schoolteacher named Carrie Nation walked into a bar in Kiowa, Kansas, proclaimed, “Men, I have come to save ...