FARGO — Close your eyes. You can almost picture the conversation on any given day of the Prohibition era. “Hey, Johnny, I need you to run this hooch to the next town. Make it quick and don’t get ...

The word Prohibition often conjures up the images of gangsters in three-piece suits, Ford Model T cars, jazz music blaring in glamorous speakeasies, and Al Capone. It's a fascinating time in American ...

“Let no one tell you the temperance-prohibition laws cannot be enforced,” Harold “Three-Gun” Wilson, deputy Prohibition administrator for Delaware, announced at a meeting in Seaford of the Sussex ...

Before whiskey -- the first distillations -- Tough Irish women -- Early Scotch whiskey women -- Early American women -- The targeted and early marketers -- Temperance women -- Women moonshiners and ...

The Prohibition era lasted from 1920 to 1933 and was one of the most fascinating periods in American history. During this time, the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages were banned ...

With Mr. Hoover in the White House, eminent Drys felt last week that a real groundswell of Dryness was at last in motion. Said F. Scott McBride,general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League: “This ...

In the early 1900s, not all Yakima County residents were pleased with alcohol. Prior to Prohibition taking effect in Washington in 1916, many citizens began pressuring leaders for the closure of ...