alcohol

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/29/2020
  

  Mr. DeMille, I’m Ready for Your Booze Stash

  A look inside the subculture of "dusty hunters," collectors of old-stock liquor. Usually this means finding discontinued brands in the back of a liquor store, but sometimes it means buying a legendary film director's supply. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  8/4/2020
  

  Let Us Drink in Public

  Many modern open container laws derive from previous “public drunkenness” and “vagrancy” ordinances that criminalized not just alcoholism, but also poverty and homelessness.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/23/2020
  

  The Many Faces of the ‘Wine Mom’

  Historian Lisa Jacobson explains that the "Wine Mom" meme is rooted in gender and middle class norms regulating women's obligations to their children (and women's desire for freedom from them).

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• SOURCE: University of Washington History Department
  4/15/2020
  

  In Memoriam: William Rorabaugh

  William Rorabaugh, known to his colleagues as Bill, was a popular teacher and prolific scholar whose legacy will be felt for many years to come.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/16/20
  

  Prohibition Was a Failed Experiment in Moral Governance

  by Annika Neklason

  A repealed amendment and generations of Supreme Court rulings have left the constitutional regulation of private behavior in the past. Will it stay there?

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• 5/7/19
  

  A Bloody Mary Bar and a Barroom Full of Fun

  by Bruce Chadwick

  The story includes the history of the Bloody Mary, Irish Coffee. Champagne and the Bellini, brunch drinks, told in spirited, light hearted songs presented by a seasoned and a deliciously giddy cast.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  2/18/19
  

  How To Drink Like A President

  The drinking habits of presidents past and present. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/15/19
  

  The Prohibition-era origins of the modern craft cocktail movement

  by Jeffrey Miller

  For better or worse, Prohibition changed the way Americans drank, and its cultural impact has never really gone away.

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• 3/11/18
  

  How Did a Bad Idea Like Prohibition Ever Win Majority Support?

  by William Rorabaugh

  The answer involves the importance of lucky timing and the power of a grassroots interest group.

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• SOURCE: You Tube
  9-24-15 (accessed)
  

  Video of the Week: William Ashley (AKA: Billy Sunday) Preaching Against Alcohol

  How preachers used to sound (and some still do).

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  3-18-14
  

  Michigan teacher gives 5th-graders non-alcoholic beer for history lesson

  In completely unrelated news, Drunk History is returning to Comedy Central. It's not even in this wire story. We promise.

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• SOURCE: Reason
  2-22-14
  

  55 guests at George Washington's farewell party drank 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, eight of whiskey, 22 of porter, eight of hard cider, 12 of beer, and seven bowls of alcoholic punch.

  Wow.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  12-14-13
  

  The Secret History Of The War On Public Drinking

  by Joe Satran

  America's public drinking laws are a relic of Prohibition.

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• SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  9-29-13
  

  Let's Drink to Good Grades

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Students think of college as a opportunity to improve social skills and network, not study.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8-22-13
  

  Italian archaeologists have grape expectations of their ancient wine

  Archeologists in Italy have set about making red wine exactly as the ancient Romans did, to see what it tastes like.

• SOURCE: NYT
  8-21-13
  

  Mark Lawrence Schrad: Boycotting Vodka Won’t Help Russia’s Gays

  Mark Lawrence Schrad, an assistant professor of political science at Villanova University, is the author of the forthcoming book “Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State.”

• SOURCE: Daily Mail (UK)
  8-20-13
  

  Historian Richard Toye: Many thought Churchill drunk during wartime speeches

  Winston Churchill's powerful speeches have long been credited with helping to win the war, but one leading academic says there is 'little evidence' his oratory inspired the British to beat Nazi Germany.Professor Richard Toye also claims that the Second World War leader's 'finest hour' radio address, one of his most famous, lacked impact 'because many people thought that he was drunk'.The University of Exeter academic claims in a new book that Churchill was not a decisive influence on the nation's willingness to fight on against Hitler when Britain was almost on its knees in 1940.His research also found that when Singapore fell to the Japanese in 1942, one Londoner said his rallying speech was 'f****** bull****' and a 'f****** cover-up'....

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• 5-20-13
  

  The Real Problem with Putin's Russia: Vodka

  by Oliver Bullough

  Now that the bear is angry again, let's not lose sight of the fact that Russia faces an almost unprecedented public health crisis due to chronic alcoholism.