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Unintended Consequences of Prohibition
When the Prohibition era in the United States began on January 19, 1920, a few sage observers predicted it would not go well. Certainly, previous attempts to outlaw the use of alcohol in American ...
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Electric consumer appliances proliferate
A booming economy, after several years of "saving for the war effort," made the United States ripe for the explosion of consumer goods and technology that shaped the 1920s. The United States ...
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On This Day: Prohibition was ratified in the US in 1920
The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution ... Prohibition was ratified in the US on January 16, 1920, and ceased after the passage of the 21st Amendment on December 4, 1933 - to ...
Biden pardons the late Black nationalist Marcus Garvey as well as 4 others and commutes 2 sentences
President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil ...
Timeline: Key dates in the century-long battle over the Equal Rights Amendment
The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it ...