That time we all had a lot of feels and went on a ten-year bender
Tag: temperance
How the Civil Service Helped End Prohibition
Prohibition agents should have been Civil Service employees, but they weren’t, because activists wanted to install true believers in those jobs and politicians wanted to hand them out to supporters. You couldn’t have it both ways.
Prohibition’s Racist Underbelly
How southern prohibition advocates exploited racial divisions to turn the South dry
The Maine Law
Neal Dow was just about single-handedly responsible for the first statewide prohibition law in the country. He was also pretty responsible for its quick demise.
The Whiskey Ring
In an era defined by self-interest, most people could just be paid to look the other way.
Liquoring Up the Electorate
Our long national tradition of handing out booze in exchange for votes
Lewis Rosenstiel, Capitalist Champion of America’s ‘Native Spirit’
The post-Prohibition era was very, very good for a very, very small number of people. If you had pushed your way through the 1920s with a toe still dipped in the legal liquor business—by managing, for example, to secure one of the small number of ‘medicinal spirits’ licenses available—you might be one of the lucky […]
When Rockefeller and DuPont Took On Prohibition
May leveler, wealthier, brutally capitalist heads prevail
Chicken Wings are Sandwiches in Colorado
Why a lot of places require food service at bars, and how sometimes, that can have mighty strange consequences.
The 15-Gallon Law: Pack My Box With Five Dozen Liquor Jugs
Dipping a Toe in Lake Prohibition
In the Spirit of the Law 