Mark Twain once said, "It is the prohibition that makes anything precious." The United States learned that lesson the hard way not long after January 17, 1920, when it made the nation’s fifth-largest ...

Prohibition brewed an overflow of illegal activity a century ago. Idaho was in on it. Idaho’s liquor ban started in 1916. The nation followed suit four years later, but it was about more than shots in ...

When the 18th Amendment took effect in January 1920, America's drinking culture didn't disappear. It shifted into kitchens, speakeasies, and cookbooks. Here's the thing most people miss. This wasn't ...