You're Wrong About Prohibition
For most of us, Prohibition seems like a peculiar American experiment\u2014a doomed attempt by straight-laced religious conservatives to ban alcohol, and, with it, fun. But as it turns out, we've got it all wrong: Prohibition was actually a progressive struggle that united powerless and oppressed people around the world\u2014Leo Tolstoy, Frederick Douglass, Mahatma Gandhi, and Chief Little Turtle, among others\u2014against a system designed to exploit them. Listen in now as historian Mark Schrad reveals the real reasons that Prohibition became "the most popular, most influential, and longest-lived international social-reform movement in the history of the world"\u2014and historian Lisa Lindquist-Dorr tells us about the rum-runners, Cuban entrepreneurs, and corrupt judges who kept booze flowing during those dry years.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices