The early criminalization of cannabis wasn't driven by medical science or public health data. Instead, it emerged from racist ...

The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a progressive effort to enforce social reform via expanded federal power and popularly known as Prohibition, was ratified on this day in history, Jan. 16, ...

The Prohibition era, which for most Americans conjures images of “untouchable” lawmen, tommy-gun-toting gangsters, and jazz-filled speakeasies, is easily one of the most romanticized periods in U.S.

During the height of National Prohibition, a number of prominent Biloxians pooled $100,000 to invest in a Cuban rum-running venture. Their intermediary headed to Miami by train, and while taking a nap ...

Chapter one of Mark Schrad’s new book opens with a gut-wrenching episode of state brutality. It’s 1859 in Spassk, Russia, and the tsar himself has dispatched the military to put down a protest of ...