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A new year has dawned, and we\u2019re willing to bet that Americans across the nation are fighting off hangovers after ringing it in with a drink\u2014or three. On this episode of BackStory, we\u2019re raising our glasses to the long history of alcohol in America. The Guys will consider how and why the consumption and production of alcohol have ebbed and flowed throughout the centuries. We\u2019ll learn how rum became the drink of choice among revolutionary troops, explore why Native Americans were rejecting alcohol two centuries before the rest of the country, and follow the long march toward Prohibition.\n
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