Episode one of PROHIBITION averaged nearly four million viewers* for its premiere last night on PBS. The 2.6 rating among 55-metered overnight stations for “A Nation of Drunkards” was 189% above the ...

In 1918 and early 1919, with giddy thoughts of reforming society, voters in 36 states overwhelmingly approved the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, banning the sale and manufacture of intoxicating ...

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rohibition - America's notoriously "failed social experiment" to rid the country of alcohol - took center stage this week as PBS broadcast Ken Burns' highly acclaimed series on the subject. And ...

Great historical documentaries not only enlighten us about the past, but tell us things about our own times as well, either directly or implicitly. "Prohibition," the latest project by Ken Burns and ...

If you believed every story you were told, Chicago gangster Al Capone controlled every saloon in Milwaukee, every tavern has a tunnel Capone used and every subterranean space was one of his ...

Dennis White, founder of the Montana Mandolin Society, said he’s thrilled that recordings by the group have been included in Ken Burns’ new documentary, “Prohibition.” It airs Sunday night on Montana ...