Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The 21st Amendment to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 18th Amendment was the amendment frequently referred to as the “Prohibition Amendment.” It was ratified by the states on Jan.

The United States marked its 250th anniversary this year. Since its independence in 1776, the U.S. territory has expanded ...

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 ...

It’s the 1920s and you’re walking down Grand Avenue in South San Francisco. Alcohol is banned nationwide, but anyone could be making it in secrecy, any store could be selling it behind closed doors ...

As the United States went through a dry spell during Prohibition, a man with a signature look kept the liquor flowing for the nation’s lawmakers on Capitol Hill. George Cassiday, known as “the Man in ...

Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The 18th Amendment was the ...