External Websites

The following external websites contain primary and secondary source materials related to the 18th Amendment and Prohibition.

Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition External
The digitized items on this website are from the Alcoholism and Addiction Studies Collection, as well as from various collections in the Brown University Library. The site includes broadsides, sheet music, pamphlets and government publications.

18th Amendment: Prohibition of Liquor External
The Interactive Constitution from the National Constitution Center presents essays by leading scholars from diverse legal and philosophical perspectives that explore the text, history, and meaning of the 18th Amendment.
21st Amendment: Repeal of Prohibition External

Indomitable Spirits: Prohibition in the United States External
This online exhibition on Prohibition was created by the Kentucky Digital Library and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

Prohibition External
Prohibition is a PBS film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed.

The Eighteenth Amendment: Prohibition
An online exhibition containing images and documents related to the 18th Amendment.

Historical Highlights: The Infamous House Bootlegger Known as the “Man in the Green Hat”.
On October 24, 1930, the Washington Post published the first installment of an expose by the “Man in the Green Hat," a bootlegger who sold alcohol to Representatives from rooms in the House and Senate office buildings during the 1920s.
Historical Highlights: The Volstead Act
On October 28, 1919, the 66th Congress (1919–1921) overrode President Woodrow Wilson’s veto of the National Prohibition Act (Volstead Act).

The Senate Overrides the President's Veto of the Volstead Act
On October 28, 1919, the United States Senate voted 65 to 20 to override President Woodrow Wilson’s veto of the Volstead Act. Since the House had also voted to override the veto, America entered the Prohibition era.

18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Primary Documents in American History