While many Americans are in the midst of "dry January," Jan. 17 once marked the start of a dry 13 years-- for all Americans -- a century ago. The 18th Amendment went into effect on Jan. 17, 1920, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mississippi was the last state to repeal Prohibition in 1966, yet some cities and counties still enforce a ban or limits on ...

Speakeasies were a necessity to imbibe during during prohibition, but some have remained a fixture over the last century. Read on to see which you can visit.

As the actions of agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement come under intense scrutiny, it’s worth noting that a little more than 100 years ago, another expansion of federal policing – to ...

A century ago, Carry A. 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 ...

On Jan. 17, 1920, one hundred years ago, America officially went dry. The last time I was in The Cave I began wondering, given how prevalent Prohibition-era speakeasies appear to have been, what ...

Mark Twain once said, "It is the prohibition that makes anything precious." The United States learned that lesson the hard way not long after January 17, 1920, when it made the nation’s fifth-largest ...

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 ...

“Now you find law-abiding citizens, who have drunk nothing alcoholic in years, making wines and beer in their homes. Many men who had quit drinking, or were moderate consumers of whiskey and brandy ...

The polite name for Prohibition is the Noble Experiment, and we can pretty much agree that beyond giving us the still-trendy speakeasy, it was a failure. Nevertheless, the full story of the period ...

A century ago, Harford County was swimming in spirits. Prohibition was law but, in Maryland’s outlier counties, liquor flowed. Moonshiners ran stills in the old barns and deep woods, and bootleggers ...