A photograph authentically depicts a group of women protesting alcohol in front of a sign that reads "Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours." A vintage photograph some internet users purport ...

George Cassiday sold liquor to politicians between 1920 and 1930 during Prohibition. In 1930, he wrote a series of Washington ...

During Prohibition, deaths from alcohol-related cirrhosis declined ... Prohibition protesters parade in a car emblazoned with signs and flags calling for the repeal of the 18th Amendment.

“When the 18th Amendment was ratified, it seemed to have an almost united country behind it,” Frederick Lewis Allen later wrote. However, he added, “Evasion of the law began immediately.” Soon came, ...

Such chemicals were commonly converted into drinking alcohol during the Prohibition era, a reality of which officials were aware when approving the practice. For over a decade, the United States ...

During Prohibition, the U.S. government added toxins to industrial alcohol, knowing it could kill. The result? A chemical war that targeted the poor and reshaped public trust. Two young men share ...

On this day, 104 years ago, the United States began a failed experiment in alcohol prohibition. “I regard it as the most moral reform of the generation,” declared William Jennings Bryan upon ...

But the link between alcohol and the health of infants wasn’t as well known in the 1930s, when prohibition was repealed in the U.S. and all sorts of people, pregnant women included, began ...

This piece is part of a series of essays on alcohol history. You can read more here. The grand irony of Prohibition in the U.S. is that although it did indeed succeed in curtailing drinking among ...

The Prohibition era (1920-1933) was a bold attempt to eliminate alcohol from American life, aiming to curb its negative societal effects. Instead, it unleashed unintended consequences that still ...