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 ...

Over 100 years ago this month, Congress approved the act that would soon make prohibition the law of the land. While some Louisianans supported the so-called “noble experiment,” most were unhappy with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Growing up in the peaceful family-friendly Village of Glenview, Jill Ruschli Crane would hear stories about how different life was in the town in the 1920s and ’30s. Crane shares Glenview’s history ...

Tuesday marks 90 years since the end of Prohibition, the 13-year federal ban on alcohol now largely viewed as a failed experiment that glamorized illegal drinking. The Prohibition Era lasted from Jan.