This week on An Incomplete History Hilary and Geoff discuss the implementation and long-term effects of the 18th Amendment, that’s prohibition, on the United States. Where did the idea for a nation-wide ban on alcohol come from? What did advocates hope to accomplish? Can we really blame prohibition for a rise in organized crime? And how does the 18th Amendment, nullified decades ago, still affect your life today? Join us this week to find out.
Politicians and journalists alike often claim Americans are more divided now than at any point in the nation's past. Pundits and commentators point to...
Brown v Board of Education, Roe v Wade, Loving v Virginia - Supreme Court decisions in the 20th century have affected the lives of...
Welcome to part two of our three-part series on the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. In this episode we discuss the Taney court...