During Prohibition, the U.S. government added toxins to industrial alcohol, knowing it could kill. The result? A chemical war ...

A photograph authentically depicts a group of women protesting alcohol in front of a sign that reads "Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours." A vintage photograph some internet users purport ...

That’s eight ounces, equivalent to four modern-day cocktails. Prohibition cut alcohol consumption by nearly half, and deaths related to alcohol also declined. But the government couldn’t ...

It excluded all alcohol—mainly sacramental wines ... urged the measure as nothing less than a matter of life and death. "Since Prohibition went into effect I have been approached by a number ...

C.) News & Observer, President Wilson’s Secretary of the Navy who, in 1914, abolished alcohol on all U. S. warboats. He declared himself ready to keep up the fight to enforce Prohibition for a ...

Within a few years, the federal government extended Prohibition on alcohol to all states. The following year, in 1919, the Volstead Act set out the details of what Prohibition meant and the ...