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, ...

Over 100 years ago this month, Congress approved the act that would soon make prohibition the law of the land. While some Louisianans supported the so-called “noble experiment,” most were unhappy with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Dec. 10, 2019, file photo a woman holding an umbrella passes the Carrie Nation lounge in Boston, titled after the namesake ...

One hundred years ago the United States went dry. A temperance movement had swept the country, culminating with the passage of the 18th Amendment in 1919, which banned the sale of alcohol. The formal ...

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 ...