"A Nation of Drunkards" – Part 1 of 3. Widespread alcohol consumption ignites the temperance movement. The 18th Amendment outlaws alcohol in 1917, but enforcing it proves to be a whole new ...

Americans have argued over alcohol for centuries. Since the early years of the American Republic, drinking has been at least as American as apple pie. As Episode 1: A Nation of Drunkards begins ...

In 1920, Prohibition goes into effect, making it illegal to manufacture, transport or sell intoxicating liquor. ... Episode 1: "A Nation Of Drunkards" will repeat on Tuesday, ...

A century ago, Carry A. Nation became famous worldwide for demolishing illegal saloons with rocks, bricks and hatchets. She was the face of the female fight for Prohibition, which drained the ...

The policy of prohibition would last. On January 16, 1919, Congress ratified the 18th Amendment which banned the manufacture, ... which had expanded throughout the nation by the early 20th century.

More than a century before anyone dreamed up a Big-Gulp ban, another civic-minded citizen decided that Americans were drinking too much for their own good, and had to be saved. Her name was Carry A… ...

In 1900, a former schoolteacher named Carrie Nation walked into a bar in Kiowa, Kansas, proclaimed, “Men, I have come to save you from a drunkard’s fate,” and proceeded to hurl bricks and ...

Even Bible-toting, hatchet-wielding temperance icon Carry A. Nation focused not on reforming drunkards but on smashing saloons and disrupting the predacious traffic that went on there.

Episode 3: "A Nation Of Hypocrites" - Support for Prohibition diminishes in the mid-1920s as the playfulness of sneaking around for a drink gives way to disenchantment with its glaring unintended ...