Between 1920 and 1933, the United States banned drinking or selling alcohol. This class explores the ideas about family, religion, sex, immigration, and race that led to Prohibition. It examines the nightclubs and organized crime networks that sold illegal liquor, and it shows why prohibition failed so quickly.
WGSS 123: Prohibition: Alcohol Politics in U.S. History
Cross Listed
WGSS 123
Program
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Diversity Domestic,
Social Sciences