In 1918 and early 1919, with giddy thoughts of reforming society, voters in 36 states overwhelmingly approved the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, banning the sale and manufacture of intoxicating ...

One of the silver linings of Prohibition, if you're looking for them, is the birth of the cocktail. Bartenders, for the most part, didn't experiment much with flavored drinks; Americans mostly took ...

It sounds familiar: single-issue politics, a demonization of recent immigrants, smear campaigns in presidential elections and unfunded congressional mandates. While all that may be happening now, ...

For its 22nd customer appreciation breakfast on Sunday, Alexander Street Press invited as keynote speaker Lynn Novick, codirector and coproducer with Ken Burns of the Prohibition documentary series.

It sounds familiar: single-issue politics, a demonization of recent immigrants, smear campaigns in presidential elections and unfunded congressional mandates. While all that may be happening now, ...

"In a perfect world," says legendary filmmaker Ken Burns, "we'd want government support [for the arts] and a lot more of it." Burns' new PBS documentary, Prohibition, was made with his longtime ...

"Minnesota 13: From Grain to Glass" is inspired by SCSU professor Elaine Davis' book This project is the first time Norah Shapiro and Kelly Nathe have co-directed A cut of the film will be completed ...

Tying in to the upcoming Ken Burns documentary "Prohibition," which will air on KUAT, Arizona Public Media's Tom Kleespie produced the mini-documentary "The Dry Run: Prohibition in America." The ...

For many, the word Prohibition conjures up scenes of gang wars in New York, New Jersey and Chicago along with some of the decade’s most infamous characters, Bugs Moran, Meyer Lansky and Al Capone. Yet ...

The NY Times' Neil Genzlinger is impressed with Ken Burns' (and Lynn Novick's) PBS documentary Prohibition because Genzlinger didn't expect it to "resonate in the present" the way it does. He cites ...

The unique stories of America’s wine families and leaders come to light in “America’s Wine: The Legacy of Prohibition,” a documentary about the history of California’s wine industry screening Thursday ...