AFP News Agency
VOICED : Legislativo seguira con juicio contra Maduro pese a prohibicion
Los diputados de la Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela seguiran con el juicio contra el presidente Nicolas Maduro por su responsabilidad en la crisis polÃtica y economica pese a la prohibicion del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia segun...
AFP News Agency
VOICED : Montreal abre ocho tiendas de marihuana antes de legalizacion
Un activista canadiense inauguro ocho tiendas de marihuana en Montreal el jueves desafiando la prohibicion del uso recreativo de la droga en busca de ganar terreno en el mercado que podria abrirse el proximo ano con un proyecto de...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Free nipple protest in Argentina against topless beach ban
Hundreds of Argentine women manifested in Buenos Aires in a free nipple movement during which they showed their breasts after the controversial prohibition of topless sunbathing in a beach in the south of the capital
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Guatemala navy moves on Dutch 'abortion ship' after protests
Guatemala's navy on Thursday dispatched a vessel to watch over a Dutch abortion ship carrying activists vowing to help women circumvent the country's longstanding prohibition on terminating pregnancies
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Texas Guinan returns to New York from Paris
Title: 'Texas Guinan, U.S. A. New York France won't give this girl a hand! Night club girl comes home after 'deportation' for improper passport.' / Guinan, standing with group of women, speaks with reporters upon arriving back in New...
Bridgeman Arts
They Made News, Part 1 - Sam Greenwald talks of Paramount photojournalism competition and Howard Winner talks of Prohibition police raid
Sam Greenwald talks of Paramount photojournalism competition. Also interview with Howard Winner, cameraman who filmed a real prohibition police raid. Clip includes his footage. From a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
WCTU Renews Call For Prohibition
Women speakers at the 68th Annual Women's Christian Temperance Union Convention urge a return to prohibition / exterior of First Methodist Church of Birmingham audience / close-up of sign 'Welcome to Birmingham' / church audience of...
Bridgeman Arts
Prohibition, Al Capone and bootleggers, Chicago, 1928
Destruction of barrels with alcohol - dealing in alcohol - Al Capone - still of Bugs Moran - stills of the St. Valentine Day's Massacre - mobsters arrested - View over Chicago - still of Eliot Ness - Bootleggers under arrest
Bridgeman Arts
Steeplejack, Prohibition, Capone and Dillinger, Ku Klux Klan, Sacco and Vanzetti
Steeplejack, Prohibition, Capone and Dillinger, Ku Klux Klan, Sacco and Vanzetti
Bridgeman Arts
EDIT IMW931104 Steeplejack, Prohibition, Capone and Dillinger, Ku Klux Klan, Sacco and Vanzetti
EDIT IMW931104 Steeplejack, Prohibition, Capone and Dillinger, Ku Klux Klan, Sacco and Vanzetti
Bloomberg
Top Reason the War on Drugs Is a Trillion-Dollar Failure
May 16 -- Despite its war on drugs and tough incarceration penalties, the U.S. has the highest marijuana and cocaine use rates in the world. Bill Piper, senior director of the Drug Policy Alliance, joins Bloomberg TV Canada's Rudyard...
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...
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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]