Vincenzo Latronico’s novel Perfection, a cutting portrait of bourgeois expats in Berlin, examines a generation's fixations ...

Those guys who landed at Plymouth Rock were a doomsday cult, says Jane Borden — and we've emulated them ever since ...

The document, recalled his untutored protégé, “brought me an interpretation of much that before had been only inarticulate ...

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

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 protect all Americans from ...

Eventually, the nation abandoned its attempt to curb alcohol consumption, and Prohibition was repealed for good in 1933. Historian Anne Cooper Funderburg writes that despite fears that the end of ...

Soda sales and bootlegging boomed. The modern popularity of mixed drinks can also be attributed to Prohibition, as a gagging nation sought options to mask the gut-wrenching taste of low-quality ...

A vintage photograph some internet users purport is an authentic Prohibition-era image of women ... and burlesqued a recent news event — Carrie Nation's saloon-smashing spree in Wichita, Kansas.

From "The Godfather" to "The Sopranos," mobsters and their families have been the subject of American fiction for generations. Now, two new programs promise to take a deep dive into the true ...

During Prohibition, enforcing the nation’s liquor ban was a game of cat and mouse. Smugglers, speakeasies, and bootleggers found creative ways to dodge the law, while federal agents scrambled to ...

In the new nation, prohibition seemed like a shortcut to ... Since alcohol withdrawal can be fatal, chronic drunkards could show a doctor’s note for a prescription. And the rules didn’t ...