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 ...

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 nation of liquor 100 years ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Last week, David Frum wrote a fascinating article for The Atlantic comparing our current abortion battle to Prohibition ... but also as drunkards. And, as Schrad noted, “The most frequent ...

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 ...

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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 ...