Prohibition — America’s notoriously “failed social experiment” to rid the country of alcohol — took center stage this week as PBS broadcast Ken Burns’ highly acclaimed series on the subject. And ...

This interview was originally broadcast on May 10, 2010. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition is now available in paperback. Between the years of 1920, when the 18th Amendment to the ...

The consequences of prohibition were felt all across the United States. Find stories near your home town. Learn more about each event through photos and videos. View a prohibition photo gallery. View ...

Some time ago, historian and journalist Daniel Okrent ran into Ken Burns, the renowned documentary-maker. Burns had long urged Okrent to make a film with him. Okrent, a wordsmith and not a film guy, ...

Documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick set the tone for their three-part "Prohibition" with a sobering observation by Mark Twain. Now, Twain, who died in 1910, didn't live long enough to see ...

Watching Prohibition, you can almost hear Ken Burns knock back a shot of Bushmills, slam the glass on the bar, and yell, “Yee haw — let’s make us some television!” There’s a hot-cheeked vigor to this ...

Maine’s bumpy history as the birthplace of Prohibition and a stronghold of the temperance movement will be featured in “Prohibition,” a three-part PBS documentary series that starts tonight. The ...