This story appears in the October 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1929 Prohibition loomed large over local elections around the United States, including at this county courthouse in ...

The problem was that Prohibition has already been the law of the United States for nearly a decade. That Boess had to ask tells you plenty about how well it was working. When the Prohibition era ...

Here are some of the highest-selling Prohibition-era artifacts we could find. These cases were smuggling game-changers. No one batted an eye seeing a businessman carrying a briefcase. Little did ...

Let's say instead of violent nerd Gordon Freeman wasting alien invaders in City 17, Half-Life 2 was actually about a gritty ...

A New York couple didn't believe that their century-old home ... was more than 66 bottles of smuggled Prohibition-era whiskey, according to CNN. Two months ago, the couple decided to begin major ...

More on national park selection National Parks Service approves Maryland Rosenwald school as 'candidate' for historic site "It's been 91 years since prohibition and it's an antiquated system that ...