As a U.S. history scholar, I know both the government agencies charged with enforcing national Prohibition in the early 20th century and with mass deportation in the early 21st century were hastily ...

In the United States, members of the Progressive movement called for several societal changes prior to the turn of the 20th century, one of which pertained to the prevalence of alcohol. Nearly three ...

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 ...

You could brown-bag your bottle of bourbon and sneak into Printers Alley, walk through a secret entrance and get lost all night long. It was the 1920s in Nashville. Prohibition reigned, creating a ...

Since the brutal murders of eight relatives in Piketon, Ohio last week, authorities have launched an all-hands-on-deck investigation that prompted interviews with 60 persons of interest but yielded no ...

Prohibition, making the sale of alcohol illegal, arrived in the United States with the speed of a comet, hung around for a decade, and disappeared like a rocket. In both cases — its arrival and its ...

Excerpts from The News Journal archives from Jan. 18-24 include Prohibition pros and cons in 1926. Wilmington school desegregation case goes to Supreme Court again in 1976. Delaware debates expanded ...

Policemen pose with distillation equipment. BRISTOL — The Elkhart County Historical Museum will host “Hoosiers & Their Hooch: Perspectives on Prohibition,” one of the Indiana Historical Society’s ...