It is next to a video store he and his parents already operated. 1851: Maine is the first state to pass Prohibition. 1880: Kansas is the first state to outlaw through a constitutional amendment ...

Walker, was when Prohibition was to go into effect. The problem was that Prohibition has already been the law of the United States for nearly a decade. That Boess had to ask tells you plenty about ...

For over a century, speakeasies have been an integral part of American bar tradition. But what's in these bars and where did ...

State of the Union: Jude Russo on H.L. Mencken’s “Days” trilogy. Baltimore in the 1880s until Prohibition was a lively, broiling town, a teeming seaport populated by ladies of the night ...

PROHIBITION is a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the ...

etc.). Many longstanding cocktail favorites that fans know and love today were created pre-Prohibition, especially during the late 1880s. But, per the lore, many of the classic drinks that emerged ...