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The Business Professor
Securities Issuance - Prefiling Period
Securities Issuance - Prefiling Period
Cerebellum
The World War One Years 1917-1920 - The 18th Amendment - Volstead Act (1919)
American democracy has a lineage of written records that we can trace to show the development of our nation, and how each document builds on those before it to make our foundation of freedom stronger. In this video, the documents...
Weird History
How People Spent Free Time In the 1920s
For the healing of the nations there must be good will and charity, confidence and peace," President Calvin Coolidge declared at the end of 1923, as the shadow of WWI continued to loom over America. What was life actually like in the...
Mr. Beat
Prohibition (Story Time with Mr. Beat)
Here's the story of the time the United States tried banning the production, transport, and sale of alcohol.
Weird History
The History of Alcohol in America
From colonial cider drinkers to prohibition hooch smugglers, these are the lengths Americans went for their booze. Some cowboys were said to be so desperate at the saloons they threw back a mixture of gin and strychnine, while some...
Professor Dave Explains
Woodrow Wilson: A World War and a League of Nations (1913 - 1921)
Woodrow Wilson was president during a time when a lot was changing in the world. World War I broke out, and as hard as he tried to keep America out of it, it was inevitable that it enter the action, only to emerge as the world's premiere...
Ancient Lights Media
US Constitution: Freedom of Religion
Understanding the U.S. Constitution: 5. This clip explains the guarantee of Freedom of Religion as it is spelled out in the U.S. Constitution.
Cerebellum
Emergence Of Modern America: The Depression - The New Deal
Just the Facts: The Emergence of Modern America: The Depression uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades that shaped modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era of...
Cerebellum
Emergence Of Modern America: The Progressive Era - Women In The Progressive Era
Just the Facts: The Emergence of Modern America: The Progressive Era uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades that shaped modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era...
Khan Academy
US History Overview 2 - Reconstruction to the Great Depression
Ambitiously spanning American history from 1865 to 1941, this video discusses and clarifies topics such as women's suffrage, the sinking of the Maine, and the development of America as a world empire. Maps and photographs will engage...
C-SPAN
On This Day: Prohibition
Before Prohibition, America was literally awash in alcohol, according to one historian of the topic. When the Eighteenth Amendment was enacted, loopholes allowed Americans workarounds, such as the ability to make up to 250 gallons of...
C-SPAN
On This Day: Ratification of the 21st Amendment
What led to the end of Prohibition? In a word: money. To use the words of one historian: the government was desperate for tax revenue in the midst of the Depression. With a series of curated videos, scholars examine the causes of and the...
Curated OER
History Matters: Not Rum but Righteousness: Billy Sunday Attacks Booze
Listen to one of Billy Sunday's sermons denouncing liquor and the government's taxing of it. [12:19 min.]
Curated OER
History Matters: Aimee Semple Mc Pherson on Prohibition
Listen to a speech by Aimee Semple McPherson, well-known evangelical preacher in the 1920s, where she talks about Prohibition. [12:19 min.]
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: 'Dry Manhattan' Traces Prohibition's Failure
Listen to an NPR interview with author Michael A. Lerner whose book, Dry Manhattan, contends that Prohibition caused a culture clash in New York City between those who supported Prohibition and the large immigrant community which...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Billy Sunday, Man of God
Listen to this NPR examination of Billy Sunday as he railed against the Demon Drink. There are audio clips of Billy Sunday's sermons, as well as an interview with author Robert F. Martin, who wrote Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and...
Backstory Radio
Back Story Radio: Cheers and Jeers: Alcohol in America [2013]
This Backstory Radio episode is a rebroadcast of a 2012 episode on the history of alcohol use and abuse in America as well as its proponents and opponents. It provides the audio in segments and the full episode in a transcript.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 1859: Amendments & Judicial Review Part 8: Prohibition
Americans thought better about Prohibition, repealing it in 1933.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: The Eighteenth Amendment
Prohibition in the United States was first enacted with the 18th Amendment, but this was later replaced with the 21st Amendment which ended prohibition.
Other
Reading Through History: History Brief: Speakeasies
A short video about speakeasies and other unintended consequences of the prohibition era. [4:38]