The early criminalization of cannabis wasn't driven by medical science or public health data. Instead, it emerged from racist ...

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 Prohibition era, which for most Americans conjures images of “untouchable” lawmen, tommy-gun-toting gangsters, and jazz-filled speakeasies, is easily one of the most romanticized periods in U.S.

Welcome to JJ Foley's Cafe, *** Boston bar and institution that survived prohibition. Thanks to Jeremiah Foley's hard working and creative grandfather. Was he selling more than cheese? Yes. January ...

When Prohibition went into effect on January 17, 1920, following the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment, American home cooks found themselves in uncharted territory. The sudden disappearance of ...

Welcome to JJ Foley's Cafe, *** Boston bar and institution that survived prohibition. Thanks to Jeremiah Foley's hard working and creative grandfather. Was he selling more than cheese? Yes. January ...

During the height of National Prohibition, a number of prominent Biloxians pooled $100,000 to invest in a Cuban rum-running venture. Their intermediary headed to Miami by train, and while taking a nap ...

Chapter one of Mark Schrad’s new book opens with a gut-wrenching episode of state brutality. It’s 1859 in Spassk, Russia, and the tsar himself has dispatched the military to put down a protest of ...

Stearns County has a rich history of bootlegging and speakeasies from the Prohibition era. Several Stearns County families turned to moonshine to make a living. Today, central Minnesota is home to ...