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Prohibition: everything you wanted to know
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Length:
75 minutes
Released:
May 2, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
Was Al Capone’s brother really a Prohibition agent? What was the atmosphere in a speakeasy like? And why did Americans think that banning booze would ever work? In the latest episode in our series on history’s biggest topics, historian Timothy Hickman responds to listener questions and popular internet search queries on the ban on booze in 1920s America.
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Released:
May 2, 2021
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