Jan. 17, 1920: Put down your drinks, Kentucky: Prohibition begins. According to the Lexington Leader, it was a day of mixed blessing with the “drys” celebrating while the “wets” cried in ...

Federal dietary guidelines could be heading in an alcohol-free direction, thanks in part to zero-tolerance temperance groups that object to drinking.

Despite the end of prohibition nationally, North Carolina as a whole didn’t begin allowing alcohol sales again until 1935. The state established the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) system to ...