Many believed women bootleggers were few and far between. Mary Sullivan, director of the New York Women’s Police Department, argued in 1926 that women were incapable of such jobs.

Jeannette Walls' 'Hang the Moon' transports readers to Prohibition Walls' excellent construction of her female characters is most satisfying; each represents women from varying walks of life, each ...

The Prohibition era, roughly 1919 to 1933, was packed with colorful characters, and chief among them were bootleggers. We imagine gangsters in pinstripe suits with determined lawmen in hot pursuit.

California has been a center of U.S. wine-making for a long time, going back to the mid-1700s. Fast forward to Prohibition, and things changed in a big way when wineries and vineyards needed to ...

Prohibition brewed an overflow of illegal activity a century ago. Idaho was in on it. Idaho’s liquor ban started in 1916. The nation followed suit four years later, but it was about more than ...

In 1930, Wilson was appointed a Prohibition enforcement agent for Delaware. It immediately became apparent that a new sheriff was in town, when Wilson proclaimed that he would rally public support ...

During Prohibition, bootlegging was big business in this corner of Northeast Florida, and moonshine stills were hidden all over, from the thickets of Palm Valley to the wilds of Clay County, from ...

The novel Hang the Moon gives us a chance to think about something that hasn't gotten much attention — the lives of women bootleggers in America. Keishel Williams is a Trinidadian American book ...