See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On January 16, 1919, Congress announced that in one year's time, the ...

It was the death knell of booze. In theory, anyway. On Feb. 25, 1919, church bells throughout Harrisburg clanged in celebration after Pennsylvania ratified the 18th Amendment prohibiting “the ...

Flush with the accomplishment of winning the vote, some women focused their newfound political power on reversing the Constitutional ban on alcohol. Pauline Morton Sabin, one of the leaders of the ...

Before the 18th Amendment was adopted the Drys were on the sensational side of the Prohibition argument. Effectively they dramatized the evils of liquor, exhibited homes broken, lives wrecked by the ...