Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Put away your lagers, your cocktail shakers, and your martini glasses. Prohibition is now in effect. On January 16, 1919, the 18th ...

GRANITE FALLS — For three to four years now, Mary Gillespie has been trying to make Granite Falls known for its role as the home of Andrew Volstead. She had not had the success she would have liked, ...

Writers of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution took a little more than one hundred words to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. The 18th Amendment ...

The 18th Amendment to the Constitution prohibited the nation from consuming alcoholic beverages, but it said nothing about how to enforce this noble goal or, perish the thought, punish those who might ...

Volstead Act doesn’t have the old-school ambiance of a bygone era. The new downtown Spokane bar, named for the law that launched Prohibition, has a look that is semi-industrial and elegant, but – by ...

Back in January of 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. Authored by U.S. Sen. Morris Sheppard of Texarkana, the amendment banned the manufacture, sale or ...

February 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the Capper-Volstead Act. This is one of the most important agricultural laws ever passed for farmers. Capper-Volstead gave agricultural producers the right ...

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"CBS This Morning Saturday" and Twin Cities Public Television's "Almanac" are soon to air segments on the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Volstead Act, which made Prohibition the law of the ...