Provides a brief explanation of prohibition, the eighteenth amendment, and the Volstead Act with links to many other outside resources.

A collection of primary sources supporting and disputing the efficacy of Prohibition and the enforcement of the Volstead Act.

Prohibition ultimately was a failure, but this fact sheet gives you some interesting perspective into the temperance movement. Discover some of the outlandish punishments advocated for those who drank.

This site from the Museum of the City of San Francisco provides an article from a prohibition-period newspaper that reports the new attack by prosecutors on policemen who have been bribed by bootleggers.