During Prohibition, countless speakeasies sprang up, and while many have closed, a few exist where you can experience the history without the criminality.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Tuesday marks 90 years since the end of Prohibition, the 13-year federal ban on alcohol now largely viewed as a failed experiment that glamorized illegal drinking. The Prohibition Era lasted from Jan.