Eighteenth Amendment

Ken Burns’ account of prohibition tells a popular story of booze in America. The historical record is far more sobering.

And why we need another one.

One hundred years later, it’s time to challenge a long-held bias.

How the Eighteenth Amendment fueled America’s taste for ice cream.

From the Spanish-American War to modern cocktail bars, the daiquiri has a long legacy entangled with US imperialism in the Caribbean.

The pro-life movement needs to know that such culture wars result not in outright victory for one side but in reaction and compromise.

Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Congress enacted several laws restricting the sale of alcohol to Native Americans.

The temperance movement wasn’t an example of American exceptionalism; it was a globe-spanning network of activists and politicians against economic exploitation.

Cocktails — the ingredients, the stories, the pageantry — can reveal more than expected about the Gilded Age.

The enchanted terms in which F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed modern America still blind us to how scathingly he judged it.

In Philadelphia, authorities faced a familiar challenge: to protect public health while maintaining individuals' rights to act, speak, and assemble freely.

Decades before Watergate, mobsters helped turn hearings into must-see television.