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Temperance vs. individual liberty

In 1826, a century before Prohibition, Presbyterian minister Lyman Beecher wrote, “No sin has fewer apologies than intemperance.” Beecher founded…

Al “Scarface” Capone, the ruthless yet media-friendly Chicago Outfit boss during Prohibition, died of natural causes 70 years ago today,…

A .38-caliber revolver believed to have been seized from Al Capone during a 1928 arrest in Miami is now on…

By the late summer of 1946, Guy McAfee was the best-known big shot in Las Vegas. McAfee, 58, had spent…

Last in a series of profiles for Women’s History Month. In the waning weeks of Prohibition in 1933, Elizebeth Friedman,…

Second in a series of profiles for Women’s History Month. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, one-time public defender and tax lawyer to…

The end of Prohibition was perhaps the biggest political reversal in American history. The passage of the 21st Amendment to…

Home to lavish resorts and grandiose casinos, Las Vegas has earned quite the reputation for its extravagant lodging and gambling…

Raymond Patriarca, leader of a major New England crime family from the 1940s to the mid-1980s, seemed to live the…

Stanley Grauso, a real Prohibition-Era hoodlum who died recently at age 104, sat down with The Mob Museum two days…