Prohibition Era (1920-1933)
News about Prohibition Era (1920-1933), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Nov. 10, 2014
Voters in Bridgewater, Conn, agree overwhelmingly to strike down the town’s long-held ban on the sale of alcohol; it was last dry town in Connecticut since the adoption of Prohibition almost a century ago. MORE
Jan. 29, 2013
Op-Ed article by history scholar Grace Elizabeth Hale examines opposition by New York State chapter of NAACP to New York City Mayor Michael R Bloomberg's restrictions on sugary soda; explores tangled history of race and prohibition era, which in part is influence on organization's opposition to restrictions. MORE
Oct. 19, 2012
Edward Rothstein reviews exhibit American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, exploring the early 20th-century anti-drink movement, at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. MORE
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ARTICLES ABOUT THE PROHIBITION ERA (1920-1933)
Prohibition was repealed on Dec. 5, 1933.
December 5, 2014, Friday
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Voters in Bridgewater, Conn., overwhelmingly approved alcohol sales in restaurants, but the change is only theoretical until a restaurant comes to town.
November 10, 2014, Monday
New books by Doug Most, Ellen NicKenzie Lawson and Steven Hart examine the New York subway’s birth, Prohibition in the city and the mayors of two New Jersey cities 80 years ago.
January 26, 2014, Sunday
Two copper stills, custom-made in Scotland, arrived last Monday at the Kings County Distillery in Brooklyn, which in 2010 became the first legal distillery in New York City since Prohibition.
February 4, 2013, Monday
Behind the N.A.A.C.P. brief against Mayor Bloomberg’s soda restriction is a tangled history of race and prohibition.
January 29, 2013, Tuesday
“American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition” at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia takes on the history of a movement that is quite alien today.
October 19, 2012, Friday
An official of the Drug Policy Alliance says a Sioux tribe should lift its alcohol ban.
October 16, 2012, Tuesday
Questions about a speakeasy called the Alimony Prison, and a gender switch revealed at death.
September 16, 2012, Sunday
Bill’s Gay Nineties Restaurant and Piano Bar is set to close at its location on East 54th Street after spending nearly 90 years there.
March 2, 2012, Friday
Images from the exhibition “American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition” at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
In the real Atlantic City, Nucky Thompson’s Prohibition-era world still exists, if you know where to look.
Prohibition drove drinkers of all stripes to speakeasies, seen here in archival images.
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