While many Americans are in the midst of "dry January," Jan. 17 once marked the start of a dry 13 years-- for all Americans -- a century ago. The 18th Amendment went into effect on Jan. 17, 1920, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You might've missed the date, but it was recently the anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition. The 21st Amendment to the ...

Inspired by the distillery’s Prohibition-era history, including the 1929 100-day “distilling holiday,” this limited release will be available nationwide. Tony Sachs has written for numerous ...

The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a progressive effort to enforce social reform via expanded federal power and popularly known as Prohibition, was ratified on this day in history, Jan. 16, ...

On Jan. 17, 1920, one hundred years ago, America officially went dry. Prohibition, embodied in the U.S Constitution’s 18th amendment, banned the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol. Yet it ...

Welcome to Shelf Sleepers, our semi-regular guide to the best booze nobody is buying. This time: Old Forester 1920, a bourbon that tastes like it costs a lot more than $60. A little over 100 years ago ...

Prohibition speakeasies have the veneer of secret sophistication, but the reality was far grittier, particularly where the ...

Mark Twain once said, "It is the prohibition that makes anything precious." The United States learned that lesson the hard ...

It backfired faster than you can say Machine Gun Kelly. History books have dubbed the decade that preceded the Volstead Act as an era of “Bootlegging and Gangsterism.”As it turns out, just because ...