Prohibition | smithsonianmag.comhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/prohibition/RSS feed for ProhibitionenThu, 27 Mar 2025 10:30:00 +0000The Daring 19th-Century Reformers Who Sought to End Prostitution by Offering Financial and Emotional Support to Urban Sex Workershttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-daring-19th-century-reformers-who-sought-to-end-prostitution-by-offering-financial-and-emotional-support-to-urban-sex-workers-180986310/Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be held accountable for frequenting brothelsThu, 27 Mar 2025 10:30:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-daring-19th-century-reformers-who-sought-to-end-prostitution-by-offering-financial-and-emotional-support-to-urban-sex-workers-180986310/Armed With Just a Badge, Los Angeles' First Policewoman Protected the City's Most Vulnerable in the Early 20th Centuryhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/armed-with-just-a-badge-los-angeles-first-policewoman-protected-the-citys-most-vulnerable-in-the-early-20th-century-180986190/Appointed in 1910, Alice Stebbins Wells patrolled dance halls, skating rinks, penny arcades and movie theaters, keeping these public spaces free of vice and immoralityThu, 13 Mar 2025 10:30:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/armed-with-just-a-badge-los-angeles-first-policewoman-protected-the-citys-most-vulnerable-in-the-early-20th-century-180986190/Once a Floating Speakeasy, This Shipwreck Tells a Tale of Bullets and Boozehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/once-a-floating-speakeasy-this-shipwreck-tells-a-tale-of-bullets-and-booze-180981471/The "Keuka" sank in 1932, just three years after its grand opening as a dance hall, roller rink and illicit party boatFri, 20 Jan 2023 16:26:58 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/once-a-floating-speakeasy-this-shipwreck-tells-a-tale-of-bullets-and-booze-180981471/Margaret Atwood Tried—and Failed—to Burn a Copy of 'The Handmaid’s Tale.' Here's Whyhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/margaret-atwood-tried-and-failed-to-burn-copy-handmaids-tale-unburnable-fireproof-180980223/A fireproof version of her bestseller is a weapon in an ongoing fight against literary censorshipThu, 09 Jun 2022 12:30:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/margaret-atwood-tried-and-failed-to-burn-copy-handmaids-tale-unburnable-fireproof-180980223/Inside the Global Cult of Al Caponehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-the-global-cult-of-al-capone-180978876/A recent auction of the Chicago gangster's mementos testifies to his enduring appeal—and the thorny nature of collecting items owned by criminalsMon, 18 Oct 2021 13:10:49 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-the-global-cult-of-al-capone-180978876/Master Lock Has Had a Hold on the Industry for 100 Yearshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/master-lock-has-had-hold-on-industry-for-100-years-180977743/A century ago, Harry Soref made his Milwaukee-based company into a world leader with his invention of the laminated steel padlockMon, 17 May 2021 17:45:15 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/master-lock-has-had-hold-on-industry-for-100-years-180977743/What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably)https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/are-we-headed-roaring-2020s-historians-say-its-complicated-180977638/As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is trickyMon, 03 May 2021 16:20:51 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/are-we-headed-roaring-2020s-historians-say-its-complicated-180977638/How Codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman Broke Up a Nazi Spy Ringhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-pbs-film-tells-story-wwii-codebreaker-elizabeth-friedman-180976759/A new PBS documentary traces her extraordinary life, from her Quaker upbringing to her career as the U.S.' first female cryptanalystFri, 15 Jan 2021 16:46:11 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-pbs-film-tells-story-wwii-codebreaker-elizabeth-friedman-180976759/The Modern Craft Cocktail Movement Got Its Start During Prohibitionhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/modern-craft-cocktail-movement-got-its-start-during-prohibition-180971265/Something needed to be done to mask the taste of bootleg alcohol that could include ingredients ranging from dead rats to wood tarTue, 15 Jan 2019 16:22:39 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/modern-craft-cocktail-movement-got-its-start-during-prohibition-180971265/Breaking Down the Numbers of Americans' Drinking Habitshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/breaking-down-numbers-americans-drinking-habits-180973729/A century after Prohibition, we uncork a history of the nation’s shifting relationship with boozeThu, 19 Dec 2019 11:30:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/breaking-down-numbers-americans-drinking-habits-180973729/