Alcoholic Beverage Control Board

Last Call: Women and the Repeal of Prohibition

National prohibition was officially repealed with the ratification of the 21st Amendment on 5 December 1933. Prohibition of the production and sale of alcoholic beverages…

Claire RadcliffeNovember 29, 2017

The Lincoln Legion, Governor Henry C. Stuart Executive Papers, 1916.

Drying Out Dixieland: The Confederacy and Prohibition

What do prohibition and the American Civil War have in common? More than you may think. The debate over prohibition in Virginia, which culminated in…

Claire RadcliffeApril 19, 2017

"How Dry I Am!" – The Virginia Prohibition Commission Records

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in The Delimiter, the Library’s in-house on-line newsletter. It has been shortened and edited slightly. This week Out of the Box would like…

Laura Drake DavisJuly 24, 2013