CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially took hold on Jan. 17, 1920, a victory for the nation’s temperance movement, plunging the nation into Prohibition. The ...

The Prohibition era lasted from 1920 to 1933 and was one of the most fascinating periods in American history. During this time, the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages were banned ...

Back in January of 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. Authored by U.S. Sen. Morris Sheppard of Texarkana, the amendment banned the manufacture, sale or ...

Prohibition, making the sale of alcohol illegal, arrived in the United States with the speed of a comet, hung around for a decade, and disappeared like a rocket. In both cases — its arrival and its ...

A Senate panel has expressed serious concerns over provinces being denied their constitutional rights under the 18th Amendment, and observed that quotas for local employment and provincial ...