J. T. Conroe delivers a noir-inspired thriller set in Depression-era America, blending mob intrigue, mystery, and ...

Prohibition, that noble experiment, might have been the law of the land from 1920 to 1933, but it was shamelessly ignored in the boom towns of South Florida. Here was a thirsty tourist trade, local ...

When the 18th Amendment outlawed alcohol in 1920, it set the stage for an underground empire unlike anything America had seen before. Prohibition-era gangsters stepped into the void, building fortunes ...

The Department of History will host a lecture by Nora Krinitsky, a postdoctoral fellow in African-American studies. Her lecture, titled “Race, Crime and the Color Line in Prohibition-Era Chicago,” ...

Based on actual events, ‘Harsens Island Revenge’ transports audiences to 1920s Michigan at the height of Prohibition. When Detroit’s ruthless Purple Gang threatens their families, a band of World War ...

After World War I, the United States looked for stability through isolation and “normal life,” but prohibition helped expand organized crime and everyday corruption. This episode traces how scandal ...

The week before American Prohibition ended in 1933, Brown-Forman started mashing and fermenting grain. Owsley Brown I had heard rumblings the law was about to be overturned and he wanted one of ...

In 1932, nine days after his inauguration, President Roosevelt signed an order authorizing the sale of beer. It would soon be followed by the 21st amendment: the full repeal of Prohibition. From the ...

Someone in the newsroom has asked what was the impact of Prohibition in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast. The answer: not much. Here’s more from a 2002 column and a 2005 feature: Prohibition, ...