Spencer Dutton on a dangerous prohibition mission. Here's what he was doing and the social context for the situation.

The Prohibition Era might have had a bigger and more negative impact than we initially thought. People weren't only losing ...

Many Americans spent the 1920s in a great mood ... and supported a black market in liquor after Prohibition. A popular expression of the time asked, “What will they think of next?” ...

Users believe the bottles were from Montreal, Quebec, and circulated in the U.S. during Prohibition. The Jersey coast was part of the rum runners' route when alcohol was illegal in the 1920s and early ...

President Herbert Hoover called Prohibition "the Noble Experiment". Its supporters believed that problems in society caused by alcohol could be solved by government legislation. close government ...