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New York, 1929, men pointing to a sign reading "No Booze Sold Here"

Freedom From Liquor

Ken Burns’ account of prohibition tells a popular story of booze in America. The historical record is far more sobering.
by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Aeon on September 6, 2022
Members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union break open barrels of liquor seized during Prohibition, 1929.

Roe Is the New Prohibition

The pro-life movement needs to know that such culture wars result not in outright victory for one side but in reaction and compromise.
by David Frum via The Atlantic on June 27, 2022

Dry Times in the Highest State: Colorado’s Prohibition Movement

Placing Colorado’s early adoption of Prohibition in social and political context.
by Sam Bock via Erstwhile: A History Blog on February 27, 2019
A political cartoon of Carrie Nation in a destroyed bar

Why Do We Blame Women For Prohibition?

One hundred years later, it’s time to challenge a long-held bias.
by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Politico Magazine on January 13, 2019
Two kids eating ice cream

Thanks, Prohibition!

How the Eighteenth Amendment fueled America’s taste for ice cream.
by Rachel Van Bokkem via Perspectives on History on August 8, 2016
Men dumping a barrel of alcohol down the sewer during Prohibition.
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Dried Up

How nativism and racism shaped the national movement towards Prohibition.
via BackStory on January 1, 2016

A New History of Prohibition

How the ban on booze gave rise to prejudiced policing, the penal system, and the modern American right wing.
by Lisa McGirr, Rebecca Onion via Slate on December 11, 2015
A cartoon of a group of effeminate men walking together.

Rise and Fall of the ‘Pansy Craze’

On Jazz Age gay culture and its backlash.
by Margaret Vandenburg via Gay And Lesbian Review on January 2, 2025
The Village Vanguard in Greenwich Village.

How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be

Max Gordon, Prohibition, and the transformative creation of the Village Vanguard.
by David Browne via Literary Hub on September 18, 2024
Stylized illustration of a jazz trio.

The Barrier-Breaking Ozark Club of Great Falls, Montana

The Black-owned club became a Great Falls hotspot, welcoming all to a music-filled social venue for almost thirty years.
by Ashawnta Jackson, Ken Robison via JSTOR Daily on July 10, 2024
The presidents featured on Mt. Rushmore holding ice cream cones.

How Ice Cream Made America

Over the centuries, the beloved treat has become an integral part of our national identity.
by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie via The Saturday Evening Post on June 19, 2024
The 1917 Silent Parade march in New York City protesting antiblack violence.

The Social-gospel Roots of Environmentalism

America's environmental movement has always been moralistic, which has made it bad at weighing tradeoffs. This accounts for its successes and also its failures.
by William A. Murray via National Affairs on March 21, 2024
Woman smiling mischeviously and holding bottles of liquor

Whiskey, Women, and Work

Prohibition—and its newly created underground economy—changed the way women lived, worked, and socialized.
by Mary Murphy, Tanya Marie Sanchez, Ashawnta Jackson via JSTOR Daily on April 20, 2023
Photograph of women from the Women's Christian Temperance Union gathered at a bar wearing protest signs.

The Forgotten Temperance Movement of the 1950s

Despite the repeal of Prohibition, alcohol consumption was an enormous political issue for many white American Protestants.
by Livia Gershon, Pamela E. Pennock via JSTOR Daily on July 5, 2022
Person making call in telephone booth.

The Making of the Surveillance State

The public widely opposed wiretapping until the 1970s. What changed?
by Andrew Lanham via The New Republic on April 21, 2022
Michikinikwa ("Little Turtle") statue by Douglas Hyde.

Native Prohibition in the Federal Courts

Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Congress enacted several laws restricting the sale of alcohol to Native Americans.
by Winston Bowman via Federal Judicial Center on March 1, 2022
Black and white photograph of four men standing amongst barrels of alcohol.

The Truth About Prohibition

The temperance movement wasn’t an example of American exceptionalism; it was a globe-spanning network of activists and politicians against economic exploitation.
by Mark Lawrence Schrad via The Atlantic on January 1, 2022
Gladys Bentley

The Overlooked LGBTQ+ History of the Harlem Renaissance

Acknowledging the queer culture of the Harlem Renaissance is essential in order to paint a full picture of the period.
by Olivia B. Waxman, Arpita Aneja via TIME on October 11, 2021
A collage featuring pictures from the 1918 Flu Pandemic and the 1920s, including people wearing masks and nurses on one side and flappers on the other.

What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably)

As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is tricky.
by Lila Thulin via Smithsonian on May 3, 2021
Two people clinking their bottles of beer together.

Let Us Drink in Public

Open container laws criminalize working-class people and make public life less fun. We need to legalize public drinking.
by Miles Kampf-Lassin via Jacobin on August 4, 2020
Cartoon drawing of a shopkeeper in front of a dairy shop.

How Dairy Lunchrooms Became Alternatives to the NYC Saloon ‘Free Lunch.’

Ben Katchor's Brief History of the Dairy Restaurant.
by Ben Katchor via Literary Hub on March 10, 2020

Why Do Police Drive Cars?

Since the invention of the automobile, police have used the dangers of America's roads to justify their growing oversight of motorists.
by Jackson Smith via Public Books on November 13, 2019

To Evade Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws, New Yorkers Created the World's Worst Sandwich

It was everywhere at the turn of the 20th century. It was also inedible.
by Darrell Hartman via Atlas Obscura on June 3, 2019
Hooded people kneel before a cross at a Ku Klux Klan rally.

When the Klan Came to Town

History reminds us that firm and sometimes violent opposition to racists is a time-honored American tradition.
by Michael McCanne via Boston Review on October 23, 2018

How Many Liquor Bottles Can You Find in This 1931 Map of Chicago?

The "Gangland Map" features drunken fish and goofy jokes alongside descriptions of brutal murders.
by Cara Giaimo via Atlas Obscura on June 4, 2018

When Prohibition Works

What the government's successful clampdown on Quaaludes can teach us about gun control.
by Alex Pareene via Splinter on February 15, 2018
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How the Fight Over Civil Forfeiture Lays Bare the Contradictions in Modern Conservatism

The brewing conflict between originalism and law-and-order politics.
by Sarah A. Seo via Made By History on July 24, 2017

The Craft Beer Explosion: Why Here? Why Now?

The crucial decade was the 1970s, when the industry’s increased consolidation and ever-blander product collided with key social and economic changes.
by Ranjit S. Dighe via Process: A Blog for American History on July 6, 2017
Cartoon portraits of women who were mayors in 1922.

In the 1920s, the Now-Forgotten Flood of 'Girl Mayors' Became the Face of Feminism

Profiles of a few of the municipal leaders elected in the wake of the 19th Amendment.
by Brianna Nofil via Atlas Obscura on July 6, 2016

Winston Churchill Gets a Doctor’s Note to Drink “Unlimited” Alcohol in Prohibition America

Even Winston Churchill needed a doctor's excuse to get out of Prohibition.
by Ayun Halliday via Open Culture on May 6, 2016
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