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, ...

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 ...

"And not many people know this, but it was also not illegal to be drunk in most cases — it was just illegal to have alcohol in your possession," she said. Exemptions aside, the Prohibition era saw a ...

HAMPTON, Va. — Luci Cochran, Executive Director of the Hampton History Museum, and Willow Pell, Museum Aid and Co-Curator, join Coast Live to discuss “Teetotalers and Moonshiners, and Hampton’s ...

SHOW ME ST. LOUIS- The glitz and glamour of the roaring 20's come to life inside the latest exhibit to stop at the Missouri History Museum. "We are in American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of ...

Ordering a beer at Zoetropolis Cinema Stillhouse during LancasterHistory's June 4 History Happy Hour program will be a lot less risky than it was nearly 100 years ago, when the location doubled as a ...

In 1728, as a group of residents in the western part of Chester County sought to create a more locally administered county, their petition to the authorities mentioned that “thieves, vagabonds and ill ...

Bourbon’s roots reach as far back as the beginning of the United States and is the official national spirit of America. Throughout its history, its popularity and production have waxed and waned. Here ...

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 ...

When people think about bourbon, they definitely think about Kentucky. My name is Mary Anne Eves. I am Kentucky's first female master distiller. Special water that we have in Kentucky is most ...