When the Mayor of Berlin, Gustav Boess, visited New York City in the fall of 1929, one of the questions he had for his host, Mayor James J. Walker, was when Prohibition was to go into effect.

PROHIBITION is a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the ...

no Amendment which may be made prior to the ... it passed a federal prohibition of the slave trade, effective January 1, 1808. The vote in the Senate had been eighteen to nine (with seven ...

Several towns, states, and territories separately and previously banned alcohol consumption, but national Prohibition began with the 18th Amendment, which was passed by Congress in 1917 ...

It ends by forbidding amendments that would repeal the language ... entrenched provisions of the Constitution. The first prohibition was absolute but of limited duration—it was to be in force ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Prohibition in the USA 1920 - 1933: A barrel of confiscated illegal beer being poured down a drain. Before World War ...

Weird History Food is going back to the times of Elliott Ness with Breweries That Survived Prohibition. The 18th Amendment didn't do a whole lot in the way of making America sober up. It did, however, ...