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A Mistake for the Ages
The Prohibition Museum, Savannah, Ga. Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged 18th Amendment, Carrie Nation, history, museums, Prohibition, Savannah, temperance movement
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Guns in America: Prohibition and Gun Control
Gun violence during Prohibition gave rise to the 1934 Federal Firearms Act.
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Posted in guns, History
Tagged automatic weapons, gun control, gun violence, guns, history, mobsters, Prohibition
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Thanks to Prohibition, We Now Have…
Prohibition’s influence on American lifestyle, culture and politics. Continue reading
Posted in History, Uncategorized
Tagged 18th Amendment, 1920's, history, immigrants, liquor laws, marijuana, Prohibition, roaring 20's, speakeasy
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Prohibition and Hypocrisy: Living Wet, Voting Dry
Prohibition was high time for hypocrisy, in Washington, in state houses and in city halls Continue reading
Posted in History, Uncategorized
Tagged 18th Amendment, alcohol, Franklin Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, history, hypocrisy, politics, Prohibition, Warren Harding
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Prohibition and America’s Outlaw Entrepreneurs
A Seattle cop, a New York mechanic and a French winemaker. Continue reading
Posted in History, Uncategorized
Tagged 18th Amendment, 1920's, Beaulieu, Bill McCoy, bootleggers, George de Latour, history, Jimmy McGhee, Prohibition, Roy Olmstead, rumrunners, Spanish Marie, wineries
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Resist! Prohibition Era
It is part of America’s legacy that we don’t have much interest in obeying laws we don’t like. Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged 18th Amendment, 1920's, alcohol, blind pig, history, medicinal liquor, moonshine, Prohibition, speakeasy, Volstead Act
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Prohibition as Class Warfare
The main target of Prohibition advocates was the working class saloon. Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged 18th Amendment, history, immigrants, incarceration, poisoned alcohol, Prohibition, saloons, Volstead Act, working class
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Prohibition: A Nation of Immigrants, a Nation of Xenophobes
The anti-German sentiment that accompanied WWI provided the impetus to enact Prohibition. Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged 18th Amendment, Anti-Saloon League, German-Americans, history, immigrants, Ku Klu Klan, Prohibition, World War I, Xenophobia
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Prohibition: The Left and the Right Collaborate, Produce a Fiasco
Suffragettes and Klansmen were allies in this fight. Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged 18th Amendment, alcohol, Anti-Saloon League, beer, history, Ku Klux Klan, Prohibition, women's suffrage
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Beer in New Jersey: All the Laws We Never Followed
NJ’s governor during Prohibition declared “I am as wet as the Atlantic Ocean” Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged alcohol, beer, Bishop's law, brew pubs, history, laws, liquor licenses, microbreweries, New Jersey, Prohibition, temperance
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