Prohibition, enacted in the United States from 1920 to 1933, has been referred to by some as “TheNoble Experiment” and by others as a grand folly. As per the Eighteenth Amendment to the American ...

This interview was originally broadcast on May 10, 2010. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition is now available in paperback. Between the years of 1920, when the 18th Amendment to the ...

The consequences of prohibition were felt all across the United States. Find stories near your home town. Learn more about each event through photos and videos. Explore the map. Episode 3: "A Nation ...

The consequences of prohibition were felt all across the United States. Find stories near your home town. Learn more about each event through photos and videos. View a prohibition photo gallery. View ...

Some time ago, historian and journalist Daniel Okrent ran into Ken Burns, the renowned documentary-maker. Burns had long urged Okrent to make a film with him. Okrent, a wordsmith and not a film guy, ...

Documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick set the tone for their three-part "Prohibition" with a sobering observation by Mark Twain. Now, Twain, who died in 1910, didn't live long enough to see ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Watching Prohibition, you can almost hear Ken Burns knock back a shot of Bushmills, slam the glass on the bar, and yell, “Yee haw — let’s make us some television!” There’s a hot-cheeked vigor to this ...

The hard-won legislation was so groundbreaking, so controversial, it was known across the nation and beyond as “the Maine law.” In 1851, Maine became the first state to ban the manufacture and sale of ...

The factors that led to the end of Prohibition. The criminalizing of alcohol feeds large profits into the coffers of criminal organizations and turns such gangsters as Al Capone into celebrities.