From History News Network by William Rorabaugh: Eighty-five years ago Congress, desperate for new revenues during the Great Depression, legalized beer. At the same time the Twenty-First Amendment to the United States Constitution repealing the dry Eighteenth Amendment was making… Read More ›
Prohibition
The Hays Code, Gangsters, and Prohibition: How did 1934 change Hollywood?
1934 was a pivotal year for the United States. Americans were enduring the fifth year of the Great Depression and the rural population was in an extreme state of suffering that had begun prior to the stock market crash in… Read More ›