The history of alcohol in America. A review of alcohol's influence in America. Beer and Wine are overtaken by hard liquors. Funding is provided by Bank of America; PBS; CPB; The National Endowment ...

PROHIBITION tells the story of the rise ... MORE AND MORE, PEOPLE BEGAN TO WORRY THAT THE COUNTRY WAS BECOMING A NATION OF DRUNKARDS. AND AS THE WAGES OF MANY HUSBANDS AND FATHERS AND SONS WENT ...

View profiles of people involved in prohibition. Watch video segments from the film on demand. Episode 2: "A Nation Of Scofflaws" - In 1920, Prohibition goes into effect, making it illegal to ...

Prohibition proponents gained further momentum through ties with the populist and progressive movements, which had expanded throughout the nation by the early 20th century. While the central aim ...

Nation died in 1911, nine years before national prohibition. Her gravestone, paid for by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, states, “Faithful to the Cause, She Hath Done What She Could.” ...

than any man in Congress” to make Prohibition a reality, according to a letter in the collection from Jan. 17, 1920. He promised Volstead “the nation will be increasingly grateful to you in ...

Updated at 11:11 a.m. ET on January 13, 2025 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 ...

Wikimedia Commons Carry A. Nation, born as Carrie Amelia Moore in November 1846, took a direct approach to forwarding the aims of the prohibition movement–often much too direct for the tastes of ...

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.

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 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 ...