Bryan for President in 1920?
Lincoln has seldom been the site of a national political convention, but in July 1920 it hosted such a meeting. "Dry Convention Comes to Order 'to Bury Booze,'" reported ...
18th Amendment
What We Found
Timeline Tuesday: Bootleggers’ Carnival
The passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed the manufacture and sale of liquor nationwide, but statewide prohibition was already in effect ...
Bootleggers’ Carnival
The passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed the manufacture and sale of liquor nationwide, but statewide prohibition was already in effect ...
Students and the Saloon
Although dating from the 1870s, the city of Lincoln’s preoccupation with the prohibition issue quickened in the first decade of the twentieth century. With the failure ...
William Jennings Bryan, Billy Sunday, and the Prohibition Party Ticket of 1920 ∙ Patricia C. Gaster
“We have come together to select a burial lot for John Barleycorn,” said Virgil G. Hinshaw in his opening address to Prohibition Party delegates on July 21, 1920. The ...
A Drink for New Year’s Eve
Douglas County sheriffs after a raid on an illegal still around 1922. RG3348-10-11
New Year's Eve in the 1920s saw Nebraskans unable to legally include ...
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