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NEW YORK — In this era of bottomless mimosas, craft beers and ever-present happy hours, it’s striking to recall that 100 years ago the United States imposed a nationwide ban on the production and sale ...

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The sheriff of Orange County, California, dumping bootleg booze during Prohibition | Orange County Archives, Wikimedia // CC BY 2.0 For 13 years, the United States had a constitutional ban on booze.

The standard, schoolbook history of alcohol prohibition in the United States goes like this: Americans in 1920 embarked on a noble experiment to force everyone to give up drinking. Alas, despite its ...

American prohibition, which lasted from 1920 to 1933 and banned the sale of alcohol for non-medicinal or religious purposes, is generally viewed as a failed experiment. It damaged the American economy ...

The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a progressive effort to enforce social reform via expanded federal power and popularly known as Prohibition, was ratified on this day in history, Jan. 16, ...

THE fight for prohibition is over. It is far from my purpose to awaken the old and bitter controversy. Rather, it is because prohibition is now our adopted and definitive policy, that it seems worth ...

Today is the 75th anniversary of the end of America's "noble experiment" - the prohibition of intoxicating liquor. San Francisco celebrated the day 75 years ago by raising a glass or two, and the city ...

Speakeasies were born at the inception of Prohibition. It's been 100 years since Prohibition threatened the future of the country's happy hours and margarita taco nights. In 1919, the United States of ...