FARGO — Close your eyes. You can almost picture the conversation on any given day of the Prohibition era. “Hey, Johnny, I need you to run this hooch to the next town. Make it quick and don’t get ...

Photograph shows men of Smith's Company of the Texas Rangers posed behind barrels of confiscated bootleg liquor. Nov. 9, 1922 near Tyler, Texas. (UTSA Libraries Special Digital Collections) ...

The 18th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1920. It banned the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol within the United States. It was one of the dumbest constitutional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This provided photo shows South Bend's Catherine Oliver in the 1920s wearing clothing representative of the Prohibition era, which ...

The Prohibition era lasted from 1920 to 1933 and was one of the most fascinating periods in American history. During this time, the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages were banned ...

Prohibition brewed an overflow of illegal activity a century ago. Idaho was in on it. Idaho’s liquor ban started in 1916. The nation followed suit four years later, but it was about more than shots in ...

A century ago, Harford County was swimming in spirits. Prohibition was law but, in Maryland’s outlier counties, liquor flowed. Moonshiners ran stills in the old barns and deep woods, and bootleggers ...

According to “research” on a website dedicated to the bulldog bootleggers of New York City, bulldogs helped make deliveries of whiskey and spirits to speakeasies all over town during the 1920s ...

SOUTH BEND — The History Museum and Studebaker National Museum have canceled their 1920s-themed Bootlegger's Bash that had been scheduled for April 17 on the museums' campus, 897 Thomas St., according ...