The links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in Chronicling America. You can further explore the topic of "Prohibition" using the following search strategies:

• Use the following terms in combination, proximity, or as a phrase:
  Amendment, Dry, Prohibition, Sheppard Dry Amendment, Temperance, Volstead Act.
• It is important to use a specific date range if looking for articles for a particular event in order to narrow your results, e.g., August 1-3, 1917; December 17-19, 1917; January 16-18, 1917; October 26-31, 1919; January 18, 1920.
• The 18th Amendment was alternately known as the Prohibition Amendment or the Dry Amendment.
• The Volstead Act, which was passed in 1919, was the legislation enabled by the Amendment that allowed the states to enforce the prohibition of alcohol.