Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The 21st Amendment to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 18th Amendment was the amendment frequently referred to as the “Prohibition Amendment.” It was ratified by the states on Jan.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coast Guardsmen stand in front of two truckloads of liquor seized on April 14, 1931, after a battle between three policemen and ...

The pair started small, pushing for bans on alcohol at the state level. But in 1917 decades of campaigning paid off. The 18th Amendment, which required the federal government to ban the manufacture ...

Prohibition, making the sale of alcohol illegal, arrived in the United States with the speed of a comet, hung around for a decade, and disappeared like a rocket. In both cases — its arrival and its ...

It’s the 1920s and you’re walking down Grand Avenue in South San Francisco. Alcohol is banned nationwide, but anyone could be making it in secrecy, any store could be selling it behind closed doors ...

A handful of companies, including Brown-Forman, received medicinal licenses to legally sell existing spirits during Prohibition. The repeal of Prohibition in 1933 did not immediately solve the ...

Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The 18th Amendment was the ...